SWARD

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Skin; covering. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

2.
n.

The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. The sward was trim as any garden lawn. Tennyson. Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. [Prov. Eng.]

3.
v.

To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward. Mortimer.


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