dial. Forms: 5 sour, sowr(e, soore, 7, 9 saur, 9 soar, sore. [a. ON. saur-r (Icel. and Norw. saur, MSw. sör) mud, dirt, excrement.] Mud; now (in Cheshire and Yorkshire) black mud, liquid manure, drainage.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 460/1. Sloor, or sowr, cenum, limus. Ibid., 465/1. Soore, fylthe or sovr (S., P. sowre, filthe),… lutum.
1674. Ray, Coll. Words, Saur-pool, a stinking puddle.
1828. Carr, Craven Gloss., 98. Saur, urine from the cow-house, &c.
1879–. in dial. glossaries, etc. (Chesh., Yks.).
