sowans

pl. [SOWENS.] sow-ar, subst. (Hind.) A trooper: a mounted soldier belonging to the irregular cavalry. sow-back, s . [Eng. sow (1), s., and back .] Geol. (pl.): A popular name for the long parallel ridges er banks of boulder-clay in the valleys of the Lowlands of Scotland. " Sowbacks being the glacial counterparts of those broad banks of silt and sand that form here and there upon the beds of rivers."-Geikie: Great Ice Age , p. 76.