sward
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
From Old English sweard (“skin, rind”) [1]
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[edit] Noun
sward (plural swards)
- (uncountable) A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod.
- (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
- 1890: Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company [1]
- ...the trees began to thin and the sward to spread out onto a broad, green lawn, where five cows lay in the sunshine...
- 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [2]
- Only where George stood was there left a sward as of yore; the great, level, green lawn that served for both the Major's house and his daughter's.
- 1890: Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company [1]
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- (earth into which grass has grown): grass, turf, sod
- (land covered with grass): clearing, field, greensward, lawn, meadow, yard
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
A layer of earth into which grass has grown
An expanse of land covered in grass
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[edit] References
- ^ A glossary: or, Collection of words, phrases, names, and allusions ..., Volume 2 by Robert Nares,James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,Thomas Wright (London, 1888), p. 855
