Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweeled
Literary usage of Sweeled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Randigal Rhymes and a Glossary of Cornish Words by Joseph Thomas (1895)
"A sweeled cat." Swogger. To swagger, to boast; a scolding. Swinging. Large, heavy.
Tabs. Dried cowdung used as manure. Table-board. A table. Tack, Tackle. ..."
2. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1833)
"Patiently to endure was the husiness of Hodge; and, his master's fury having "sweeled"
down into the socket, a few hasty flashes just glimmered out from the ..."
3. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather, Thomas Robbins (1855)
"... than have been kept thus long out of my study :" reckoning, with Pliny, the
time not spent in study, for the most part, sweeled away. ..."
4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1877)
"... called out that the churn was beginning to leak, so I took the rope because
it lay handy, an' sweeled it round the churn till I could get the cooper. ..."
5. Randigal Rhymes and a Glossary of Cornish Words by Joseph Thomas (1895)
"A sweeled cat." Swogger. To swagger, to boast; a scolding. Swinging. Large, heavy.
Tabs. Dried cowdung used as manure. Table-board. A table. Tack, Tackle. ..."
6. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1833)
"Patiently to endure was the husiness of Hodge; and, his master's fury having "sweeled"
down into the socket, a few hasty flashes just glimmered out from the ..."
7. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather, Thomas Robbins (1855)
"... than have been kept thus long out of my study :" reckoning, with Pliny, the
time not spent in study, for the most part, sweeled away. ..."
8. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1877)
"... called out that the churn was beginning to leak, so I took the rope because
it lay handy, an' sweeled it round the churn till I could get the cooper. ..."
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