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swod |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Swad \Swad\, n. [Probably fr AS swe?ian to bind.] [Written also {swod}.] 1. A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [Prov. Eng.] Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow. --Blount. 2. A clown; a country bumpkin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] ``Country swains, and silly swads.'' --Greene. There was one busy fellow was their leader, A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself --B. Jonson 3. A lump of mass; also a crowd. [Low, U.S.] 4. (Coal Mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam. --Raymond.
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