means A sower is someone (or something) that scatters or plants seeds, literally in a field or figuratively, as in sowing discord or ideas.

from From Old English 'sawan,' to scatter seed, with the agent suffix '-er' tacked on to name the doer. The root reaches back through Proto-Germanic '*sēaną' to a Proto-Indo-European base '*seh₁-,' meaning to sow — the same ancient seed-word that, by a long farming detour, also gives us 'seed,' 'season,' and 'semen.' A family tree, fittingly, grown from a single planted syllable.