sward
Americannoun
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the grassy surface of land; turf.
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a stretch of turf; a growth of grass.
verb (used with object)
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swards,
present (3rd person singular)
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swarded,
past participle, past
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swarding
present participle
verb (used without object)
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swards,
present (3rd person singular)
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swarded,
past participle, past
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swarding
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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swardsimple
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swardssimple
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have swardedperfect
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has swardedperfect
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am swardingprogressive
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are swardingprogressive
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is swardingprogressive
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have been swardingperfect progressive
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has been swardingperfect progressive
Past
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swardedsimple
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had swardedperfect
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was swardingprogressive
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were swardingprogressive
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had been swardingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of sward
before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English sweard skin, rind; cognate with German Schwarte rind, Old Frisian swarde scalp, Middle Dutch swaerde skin
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And the pictures are ravishing: a Massachusetts lighthouse on a grassy sward under an azure sky; a winding two-lane road through New Zealand’s Southern Alps that disappears into the snow-dusted hulk of Mt.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2018
James Milner and Gareth Barry lead the teams down the stairs and out on to the Anfield sward.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2016
Picture his bemusement when, out of the blue, he is invited to the du Pont estate, and gently deposited by private chopper on the sward.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014
I could catalog them — the plush sward of Sheep Meadow, the boat pond, the elegant bridges — but let me suggest the Mall alone as reason enough.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2010
About it lay a smooth sward, shelving down on all sides to its bare unbroken rim.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
A boardwalk leads visitors deep into the woods; mown swards direct footsteps up, over and through the Earth Garden; and steppingstone boulders navigate a stream.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2021
And they’re never short of instructors for British made fine weapons, such as princely swards.
From Time ● Mar. 12, 2013
The trees were broad and widely spaced; sheep and pigs grazed on the swards among them, and on my rare free afternoon, I had walked there without fear.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
To-morrow I shall drive to breakfast, seeing Paris continuously unfolding, prospect after prospect, green swards, white buildings, villas engarlanded; to-day I drive to breakfast through the white torridities of Rue Blanche.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by George (George Augustus) Moore
Rich green swards covering the steep slopes of the mountains, afforded abundant pasture for the scattered flocks of goats.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
Every vestige of the camp save the glowing skeletons of the troop shelters had disappeared, and the swarded savanna was become a blackened chaos-blot on the fair woodland scene.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
For Pickling.—The land for raising cucumbers for pickling may be either swarded or stubble; but it must be in good condition, and such as is not easily affected by drought.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
Spring had advanced until the prairies were swarded with grass and flowers, while water, though scarcer, was to be had at least once daily.
From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams
Then, with less than his usual judgment, he put his two chariot horses to the plough, and ran a great risk of spoiling them, in giving his new invention a trial over ground thickly swarded.
From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving
Its waters are uncommonly pure and limpid, and their banks swarded with the finest verdure.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
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