sowling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of sowl

noun

1. (obsolete)A unit of land of 160 acres.

   “A sowling is 160 acres, Cheshire measure, equal to 335,7 statute acres.”

   “Walter Fitz-Engilbert holds half a sowling and forty acres of land, and has in demesne a plough with seven bondsmen and five acres of meadow.”

   “These two sowlings (in Greenwich) in the time of King Edward, were two manors.”