Obs. exc. dial. [app. related to SOWP sb.1] trans. To soak or saturate. Hence Sowping ppl. a., drenching, soaking.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, VII. Prol. 35. The soill ysowpit into wattir wak.
1807. J. Stagg, Poems, 19. Fast the patt’ring hail was fa’ing, And the sowping rain as thick.
1855. [Robinson], Whitby Gloss., s.v., They got fairly sowp’d through.
