ˈsullow Chiefly w. and s.w. dial.
Forms: 1 sulh, 1, 3 suluh, 3 solh, (sul(c)h-, sulȝ-, solȝ-, solw-), 4 soluȝ, -ou, Kent. zuolȝ, 4–5 solouȝ, -ow, 5 -ouh, -owe, -oȝ, 6 zolow, 7– sullow (9 zullow, sillow, silla, zilla).
[OE. sulh str. fem., for *swulh, the w being preserved in Kentish ME. zuolȝ and OE. swulung, ME. swoling, etc. (see suling); ultimately cogn. with L. sulcus furrow.
The local variant sillow represents OE. dat. sing. or nom. pl. sylh, sylᵹ. The oblique forms without umlaut (sule, etc.) are represented by forms s.v. sull n.]
1. A plough. (Also in fig. context.)
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past C. li. 403 Ðæt nan mon ne scyle don his hond to ðære sylᵹ, & hawian underbæc. c 900 tr. Baeda's Hist. v. ix. (1899) 594 Forþon þe heora sylh unrihte gangað. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke ix. 62 Ne æniᵹ sende hond his on sulh [Rushw. suluh] & behaldas on bæcg. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 404 Þonne man þa sulh forð drife. c 1205 Lay. 4260 Þe[t] ælc cheorl eæt his sulche hæfde grið al swa þe king sulf. Ibid. 31811 Þer cheorl draf his sulȝe i-oxned swiðe fæire. a 1225 Ancr. R. 384 Ȝif eax ne kurue, ne þe spade ne dulue, ne þe suluh [MS. T. ploh] ne erede. 1340 Ayenb. 242 Þe ilke þet zet þe hand aþe zuolȝ and lokeþ behinde him. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 295 Hit is no leue in oure lawe þat we..sette solow on þe feld ne sowe none erþe. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 445 Þe solouȝ of holy cherche schal nouȝt goo aryȝt. 14.. Ibid. App. 535 (Harl. MS. 1900) This day is my solowe y-come to the laste forowe. 1535 in F. W. Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 178 A zolow with all other apparell for vj oxen. 1636 H. Sydenham Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637) 265 The spirituall Plough is not halfe so well manag'd by any, as one that was yesterday conversant with the Goade and the Sullow. c 1640 J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 303 What waynes, carts, sullows, harrows..remained. 1893 Wilts. Gloss., Sillow, Sullow,..Sylla, a plough, was used at Bratton within the memory of persons still living. |
† b. A plot of land is described as being ‘of so many sullows’; hence
sullow = plough n.1 3 a,
plough-land 1.
Obs.| c 1205 Lay. 13176 Twenti sulhene [c 1275 solȝene] lond. Ibid. 18779 Þritti solh of londe. Ibid. 18789. |
2. attrib. and
Comb., as
sullow-beam,
sullow-board,
sullow-handle,
sullow-share (all
obs.).
| a 1000 in Wr.-Wülcker 196/1 Burris, curuamentum aratri, *sulhbeam. 14.. Metr. Voc., Ibid. 628/5 Buris, solowbeme. |
| Ibid. 628/7 Barcha, *solowborde. |
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss., Ibid. 104/11 Stiba, *sulhhandla. 14.. Metr. Voc., Ibid. 628/5 Stiua, solowhanddul. |
| 14.. Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) VII. App. 527 (Harl. MS. 1900) Heo wole go barfot..uppon nyne *solow schares brennyng and fuyre hote. |