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Definition of Swads
1. swad [n] - See also: swad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swads
Literary usage of Swads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"Sometimes a little playfulness arose, and they pelted one another with tho swads.
Peascod, the pod of the pea : so called probably from its resemblance to a ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"They were boiled with the swads on in the set-pot; they were then piled upon a
riddle and placed upon the table. Round the base of the mountain were a lot ..."
3. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly, Richard Warwick Bond (1902)
"Whitney quotes ' Let country swains and silly swads be still ' — Greene, Madrigal.
94. raught : obsolete past participle of ' reach. ..."
4. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly, Richard Warwick Bond (1902)
"Whitney quotes ' Let country swains and silly swads be still'—Greene, Madrigal.
94. raught: obsolete past participle of' reach.' 97. in euery towne, &c. ..."
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