Citations:sowl

English citations of sowl

(British, dialectal) A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
- 1933, John Eric Bruce Gover, Allen Mawer, Frank Merry Stenton, The Place-names of the Northamptonshire, page 261:
  ME brode (n) is found by itself in le Brode (c. 1200), in Swerte-brode (15th), Cowebrode (1231) and in Soflebrode (1195), the last being perhaps a field which produced some form of sowl.
- 2011, William Wirt Sikes, Varla Ventura, Sponge Cake at Funerals And Other Quaint Old Customs:
  The female portion of the poorer sort, on the other hand, practised what was called sowling, viz., asking for 'sowl,' and and receiving, accordingly, any food eaten with bread, such as cheese, fish, or meat.

Archaic spelling of soul.
- 1884, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Why Did He Wed Her?, page 205:
  Old Andrew sat down on the ground, more exhausted by horror than by fatigue. He drew his whisky flask from his pocket and reached it out to Mike, gasping : "There, bhoy: Take it! Dhrink, and put some sowl into yourself."