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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swap  \Swap\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Swapped};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Swapping}.]  [OE.  swappen  to  strike;  cf  E.  to  strike  a 
  bargain;  perh.  akin  to  E.  sweep.  Cf  {Swap}  a  blow,  {Swap}, 
  v.  i.]  [Written  also  {swop}.] 
  1.  To  strike;  --  with  off  [Obs.  or  Prov.  Eng.]  ``Swap  off 
  his  head!''  --Chaucer. 
 
  2.  To  exchange  (usually  two  things  of  the  same  kind);  to 
  swop.  [Colloq.]  --Miss  Edgeworth. 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  swapping 
 
  {swap} 
 
 




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