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the original bet against the future, made in dirt and hope.
means The act of scattering or planting seeds in soil so that crops will grow.
from From Old English 'sawan,' to scatter seed, descended from a Proto-Germanic root (compare German 'säen') and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European base meaning to sow — the same deep root that gives us 'seed' and 'semen.' It's one of farming's oldest verbs, so old that its proverbs — reaping what you sow, sowing wild oats — were already worn smooth by the time English wrote them down.
- Word origin
- Gives us 'season,' from sowing time itself
- Broadcast method
- Flinging seed by hand, where radio got its name
- Parable fuel
- Headlines countless myths, scriptures and harvest warnings
- Depth rule
- Plant seeds twice their width deep, roughly
- Reaping debt
- You sow now, the bill comes at harvest