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Definition of Swopping
1. swop [v] - See also: swop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swopping
Literary usage of Swopping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Andrew Lang (1882)
"That ' swopping ' bird, still justly respected, was thought, for many ages, to
linger in the College of which he is the protector. ..."
2. School: A Monthly Record of Educational Thought and Progress by Laurie Magnus, Robert Binney Lattimer (1906)
"To prevent promiscuous "swopping," and its attendant temptations, it will be
found a good ... The "swopping" meetings should be as informal as possible. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"swopping. Bartering; exchanging. 'Selling or swopping a certainty for an
uncertainty.'—Modern Husbandman, I. i. 127. ' Two persona swopped their horses,' &c ..."
4. Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Andrew Lang (1882)
"That ' swopping ' bird, still justly respected, was thought, for many ages, to
linger in the College of which he is the protector. ..."
5. School: A Monthly Record of Educational Thought and Progress by Laurie Magnus, Robert Binney Lattimer (1906)
"To prevent promiscuous "swopping," and its attendant temptations, it will be
found a good ... The "swopping" meetings should be as informal as possible. ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"swopping. Bartering; exchanging. 'Selling or swopping a certainty for an
uncertainty.'—Modern Husbandman, I. i. 127. ' Two persona swopped their horses,' &c ..."
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