Definition of Swarfs

1. swarf [n] - See also: swarf

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swarfs

swarajists
sward
swarded
swardier
swardiest
swarding
swards
swardy
sware
swaree
swarees
swarf
swarf-penny
swarfed
swarfing
swarfs (current term)
swarm
swarm spore
swarm spores
swarmed
swarmer
swarmers
swarming
swarming(a)
swarmings
swarms
swarmspores
swart
swartback

Literary usage of Swarfs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anglo-Saxon Sagas: An Examination of Their Value as Aids to History; a by Daniel Henry Haigh (1861)
"Angles " and swarfs held it thenceforth, as Offa won it."1 This passage, as far as it goes, agrees exactly with the S. Albans' tradition. ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"PHILIPS, line 22 from end of second column, add that another arrangement of the same pavan, entitled ' Wy Engelen gret,' is in W. swarfs ' Den Lust-Hof der ..."

3. France by Guizot (François), Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1898)
"But when the monks set about finding the body of Harold, there was none to recognize it, and they had recourse to a young girl, Edith swarfs-neck, ..."

4. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1853)
"... a parly gct provisions which was the nixt morning I marched the Remainder consisting of 170 men up the west brench to fort swarfs I then went to Col. ..."

5. The Anglo-Saxon Sagas: An Examination of Their Value as Aids to History; a by Daniel Henry Haigh (1861)
"Angles " and swarfs held it thenceforth, as Offa won it."1 This passage, as far as it goes, agrees exactly with the S. Albans' tradition. ..."

6. France by Guizot (François), Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1898)
"But when the monks set about finding the body of Harold, there was none to recognize it, and they had recourse to a young girl, Edith swarfs-neck, ..."

7. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1853)
"... a parly gct provisions which was the nixt morning I marched the Remainder consisting of 170 men up the west brench to fort swarfs I then went to Col. ..."

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