sward
IPA: swˈɔrd
noun
- (uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
- (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
- (countable, obsolete) The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it.
- (countable, obsolete except Britain, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
- (Philippines) A homosexual man.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
- (intransitive) Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.
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Examples of "sward" in Sentences
- She was holding a long, curved sward.
- Kirkyards o 'their sward were a' howkit fu 'clean;
- In some areas this is grazed to a fine sward by cattle and sheep.
- He took to sward in place of pen in his hand and joined the army.
- The sward is the original sward, untouched, unploughed, centuries old.
- The flora of the old orchard sward was dominated by primroses and violets.
- The moonlight on the lawn was tremulous, as if the sward were a rippling sea.
- To the left of the sward is the fort, enclosed within which are the post-office and Government offices.
- The sward was the brilliantly green, luxuriant wild growth that in these islands covers every foot of earth surface.
- In the centre of the sward was a small artificial lake, long since dried up, and adorned then with a profusion of fountains, that seemed to scatter coolness around the glowing air.
- On the sward is the village well, where there seems always to be a group of busy washers; and in the centre is a large school, where every educational advantage may be enjoyed, so that
- Here, where the sward is smooth and the space yet broad between, two converging lines of peaks are already arrayed before our eyes – one extending nearly due East and West; the other running up from the South-East to meet it.
- In front of the sward there's a promenade and a railing with a battery of those coin operated heavy metal binoculars looking like silver alien heads perched on metal stalks and doing the usual truly mediocre job of magnifying things.
- A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink.