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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SWARD, n.
1. The skin of bacon. [Local.]
2. The grassy surface of land; turf; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, forming a kind of mat. When covered with green grass, it is called green sward.
SWARD, v.t. To produce sward; to cover with sward.
SWARD'-CUTTER, n. An instrument for cutting sward across the ridges.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots [syn: turf, sod, sward, greensward]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sweard, swearth skin, rind; akin to Middle High German swart skin, hide Date: 15th century 1. a portion of ground covered with grass 2. the grassy surface of land • swarded adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. literary 1 an expanse of short grass. 2 turf. Derivatives: swarded adj. Etymology: OE sweard skin

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sward Sward, n. [AS. sweard skin, covering; akin to OFries. swarge, D. zwoord, G. schwarte, Icel. sv["o]r?r skin, sward of the earth.] 1. Skin; covering. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 2. The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. The sward was trim as any garden lawn. --Tennyson. Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. [Prov. Eng.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sward Sward, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Swarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Swarding.] To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward. --Mortimer.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Turf.