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sowter

sowter is the obsolete form of souter.

Meaning of souter

Noun

souter (plural souters)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A shoemaker or cobbler.
    • There is no work better than another to please God : to pour water , to wash dishes , to be a souter (cobbler) , or an apostle1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

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Proper noun capitalized: Sowter

Sowter (plural Sowters)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.

Forms of sowter

Noun
pluralsowters
Proper noun
pluralSowters

Origin of sowter

Occupational surname, from sowter, obsolete form of souter.

Questions about sowter

What does sowter mean?
Sowter means a surname originating as an occupation.
What is sowter the obsolete form of?
Sowter is the obsolete form of souter.
What part of speech is sowter?
Sowter is a proper noun.

Words near sowter in the dictionary

  1. sowsing
  2. sowsse
  3. sowssed
  4. sowsses
  5. sowssing
  6. sowter
  7. sowters
  8. sowth
  9. sowthed
  10. sowthing
  11. sowthistle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sowter (page history and authors); Sowter (page history and authors); souter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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