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Sward
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Sward has 1 sense
- sward(n = noun.object) greensward, sod, turf - surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots; Array has particulars: divot
is a kind of ground, land, soil
CIDE DICTIONARY
Sward, n. [AS. sweard skin, covering; akin to OFries. swarge, D. zwoord, G. schwarte, Icel. svörr skin, sward of the earth.].
- Skin; covering. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. [1913 Webster]"The sward was trim as any garden lawn." [1913 Webster]
Sward, v. t. & i.
To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward. Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Sward, n. literary 1 an expanse of short grass.
2 turf.
2 turf.
Derivative
swarded adj.
Etymology
OE sweard skin
ROGET THESAURUS
Sward
Plain
N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.
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