Sward
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sward¹
- /swɔːd/ UK
- /swɔɹd/ US
Sounds like sword (some lects) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
The noun is derived from Middle English swerd, sward (“rind, skin; leather strap; sod, turf”) [and other forms], from Old English sweard (“rind; skin”), from Proto-Germanic *swarduz (“rind; tough skin; turf”); further etymology unknown.
The verb is derived from the noun.
noun swards · swarth · swart · swerd
- Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth. His eyes he op'nd, and beheld a field, / Part arable and tilth, whereon were Sheaves / New reapt, the other part ſheep-walks and foulds; / Ith' midſt an Altar as the Land-mark ſtood / Ruſtic, of graſſie ſord; […]
- An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the
- The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it. The roots of the Apple-tree, Olive, and Cypreſſe, lie very ebbe, and creepe hard under the ſourd of the ground.
- The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
verb swards · swarding · swarded
- To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
- Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward. [Land...] will not sward again […]
sward²
- /swɔːd/ UK
- /swɔɹd/ US
Sounds like sword (some lects) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
From a blend of sword + pardner.
noun swards
- A homosexual man.
Sward³
proper noun Swards
- A surname.
