sward

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From Old English sweard

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Singular
sward

Plural
swards

sward (plural swards)

  1. (uncountable) A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod.
  2. (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.

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