Sward

Word SWARD
Character 5
Hyphenation sward
Pronunciations /swɔː(ɹ)d/

Definitions and meanings of "Sward"

What do we mean by sward?

Land covered with grassy turf. noun

A lawn or meadow. noun

A skin; a covering; especially, the hide of a beast, as of a hog. noun

The grassy surface of land; turf; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, forming a kind of mat. When covered with green grass it is called greensward. noun

To produce sward on; cover with sward.

To become covered with sward.

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

Skin; covering. noun

The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. noun

Bacon in large fitches. noun

A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. noun

An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. noun

Surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots noun

A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod.

An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.

Skin; covering.

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The word "sward" in example sentences

To the left of the sward is the fort, enclosed within which are the post-office and Government offices. ❋ Unknown (1887)

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 ❋ Unknown (1887)

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. ❋ Unknown (1873)

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. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

Kirkyards o 'their sward were a' howkit fu 'clean; ❋ Various (N/A)

The sward was the brilliantly green, luxuriant wild growth that in these islands covers every foot of earth surface. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

The moonlight on the lawn was tremulous, as if the sward were a rippling sea. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)

The sward is the original sward, untouched, unploughed, centuries old. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

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. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

It simply consisted of a few sticks laid up against the side of a ditch; over these sticks were thrown a few scraws -- that is, the sward of the earth cut thin; in the inside was the remnant of some loose straw, the greater part having been taken away either for bedding or firing. ❋ William Carleton (1831)

The more open area had probably been much used by former parties, for this was the place where the appearance of a sward was the most decided. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

"The variety produces an extremely dense sward which is as good, if not better than a diploid perennial ryegrass," he says. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With Cecil and Dee on my heels, I flee across the moon-washed sward, past several startled guards, and up the stairs to my privy chamber. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

“I will block you with my sward from cutting the public option” guy ❋ Unknown (2009)

She, and the President asked the entire democratic caucus to fall on a sward (willfully or otherwise). ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the field opposite my home, lines of cut and wilting grass lie in ridges that cast shadows across the straw-like colour of cut sward. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tackling robustly, utilising the full width of the Goodison sward and pressing high up the pitch to force assorted Liverpool players into one error after another, Everton were superior in every department and ran out thoroughly deserving winners of the basement battle. ❋ Barry Glendenning (2010)

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