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sow-back Chiefly Sc.
Also sowback.
[f. sow n.1 Cf. sow's-back s.v. sow n.1 8 d.]
1. A woman's cap or head-dress having a raised ridge or fold running from front to back.
1808Jamieson, Frowdie, a cap for the head;..also called a sow-back. 1835J. Monteath Dunblane (1887) 113 Auld Wives o' Dunblane..Wi' their cloaks an' their sowbacks. 1886S. Carment Mem. J. Carment iii. 79 The aged women with their white soo-backs.
attrib.1897J. Wright Sc. Life 18 Attired in a white ‘sooback mutch’ and in short-gown and drugget coat.
2. Geol. A ridge of glacial origin suggestive of the back of a sow.
1874J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age ii. 17 The long parallel ridges, or ‘sowbacks’ and ‘drums’, as they are termed,..invariably coincide in direction with the valleys or straths in which they lie. Ibid. vii. 97 ‘Sowbacks’ being the glacial counter⁓parts of those broad banks of silt and sand that form here and there upon the beds of rivers. |