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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swop  \Swop\,  v.  &  n. 
  Same  as  {Swap}.  --Dryden. 
 
  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  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  swop 
  n  :  an  equal  exchange;  "we  had  no  money  so  we  hd  to  live  by 
  barter"  [syn:  {barter},  {swap},  {trade},  {quid  pro  quo}] 
  v  :  exchange  or  give  something  in  exchange  for  [syn:  {trade}, 
  {swap},  {switch}]




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