swad
IPA: swˈɑd
noun
- A bunch, clump, mass
- (obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
- (obsolete) A boor, lout.
- (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
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Examples of "swad" in Sentences
- Note Swad, you actually disagree with what Aup said, not me.
- Swad has a bachelor of business administration from the University of Michigan.
- a batch, a swad, a gang, a crush of crows, oh, definitely a large crowd of crows …
- They made a narrow run with him, head foremost down the hill, with a whole swad of the mounted men from the low country at their heels.
- In the corridor stood the queen awaiting him, and holding close to her bosom a cushion, on which lay a child, beautiful as the moon, kicking in swad dling clothes.
- It is such a simple process to get such good results, right! mara naniji bau swad nankhatai banavta hata, as kids we used to sit in the kitchen & watch her make it. amey oven khulwani vaat jota hata kay kyare nankhatai taste kariye.
- Stop Ki, says I, when the street is all finished off and slicked up, they'll all come back agin, and a whole raft more on 'em too, you'll sell twice as much as ever you did, you'll put off a proper swad of goods next year, you may depend; and so he did, he made money, hand over hand.
- "Stop Ki," says I, "when the street is all finished off and slicked up, they'll all come back agin, and a whole raft more on 'em too, you'll sell twice as much as ever you did; you'll put off a proper swad of goods next year, you may depend;" and so he did, he made money, hand over hand.
- The old wife said that, as the bean is not seen till first it be unhusked, and that its swad or hull be shelled and peeled from off it, so is it that my virtue and transcendent worth will never come by the mouth of fame to be blazed abroad proportionable to the height, extent, and measure of the excellency thereof, until preallably I get a wife and make the full half of a married couple.
- Ohio is most the only country I knew of where folks are saved that trouble; and there the freshets come jist in the nick of time for 'em, and sweep all the crops right up in a heap for 'em, and they have nothin to do but take it home and house it, and sometimes a man gets more than his own crop, and finds a proper swad of it all ready piled up, only a little wet or so; but all countries aint like Ohio.
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