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Synonyms for sward

Grammar : Noun
Spell : swawrd
Phonetic Transcription : swɔrd

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Définition of sward

Origin :
  • "grass-covered ground," Old English sweard "skin, rind" (of bacon, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *swarthu- (cf. Old Frisian swarde "skin of the head," Middle Dutch swarde "rind of bacon," German Schwarte "thick, hard skin, rind," Old Norse svörðr "walrus hide"). Meaning "sod, turf" developed c.1300, on notion of the "skin" of the earth (cf. Old Norse grassvörðr, Danish grønsvær "greensward").
  • As in sod : noun clod
  • As in turf : noun earth
  • As in sod : noun grass
  • As in turf : noun grounds
  • As in grassland : noun meadow
  • As in green : noun square or park in center of town
Example sentences :
  • The priest had seen it, for he had the child pickaback and was running across the sward.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • His deemsters and barons are about him, and his people are on the sward below.
  • Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
  • The green of the sward had that pale look it puts on with the last rays, or with the dawning.
  • Extract from : « In Kings' Byways » by Stanley J. Weyman
  • Quickly the earth was shovelled in, and soon two mounds showed on the sward.
  • Extract from : « A Memory Of The Southern Seas » by Louis Becke
  • It is but a strip of sward, but it is as wild as if in the midst of a forest.
  • Extract from : « The Toilers of the Field » by Richard Jefferies
  • The hills, though of great declivity, have a sward to their tops.
  • Extract from : « Handbook to the new Gold-fields » by R. M. Ballantyne
  • Directly in front of us, the sward was cut and scored by numerous tracks.
  • Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid
  • His footstep, as it stole to me, had fallen on the sward without sound.
  • Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • But why the agonized dancing on the sward of the inferior part of the reptile?
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Betsey » by Hugh Miller
  • He was lying along the sward, upon his side, half doubled up.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Huntress » by Mayne Reid

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