What does soe mean?
Soe means (obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people..
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/səʊ/ · noun
(obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people..
"[…] no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unless you pour a little water into it first, and then for one Bason-ful you may fetch up so many Soe-fuls".
Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]
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Soe means (obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people..
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"[…] no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unless you pour a little water into it first, and then for one Bason-ful you may fetch up so many Soe-fuls".
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