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5-letter words (3 found)

DRAWS,SWARD,WARDS,

4-letter words (10 found)

ARDS,DAWS,DRAW,RADS,RAWS,SARD,SWAD,WADS,WARD,WARS,

3-letter words (14 found)

ADS,ARD,ARS,DAS,DAW,RAD,RAS,RAW,SAD,SAR,SAW,WAD,WAR,WAS,

2-letter words (5 found)

AD,AR,AS,AW,DA,

You can make 32 words from sward according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of sward

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Definitions and meaning of sward

sward

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /swɔːd/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /swɔɹd/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English sward (“rind; skin; calloused skin; leather strap; sod, turf”) [and other forms], from Old English sweard, swearð (“rind; skin”), from Proto-Germanic *swarduz (“rind; tough skin; turf”); further etymology unknown.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

sward (countable and uncountable, plural swards)

  1. (uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
  2. (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
    Synonym: field
  3. (countable, obsolete) The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it.
  4. (countable, obsolete except British, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
Alternative forms
  • swarth, swart, swerd
Derived terms
  • greensward
  • swardy (archaic)
Translations

Verb

sward (third-person singular simple present swards, present participle swarding, simple past and past participle swarded)

  1. (transitive) To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
  2. (intransitive) Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.
    • 1644, Gabriel Plattes, in a letter in Hartlib's Legacy (1655), page 236:
      [Land...] will not sward again […]
Derived terms
  • swarded (adjective)
Translations

Etymology 2

From a blend of sword +‎ pardner.

Noun

sward (plural swards)

  1. (Philippines) A homosexual man.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:male homosexual
Derived terms
  • swardspeak

References

Further reading

  • James Orchard Halliwell (1847) “SWARD”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes II (J–Z), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 833, column 2.
  • Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SWARD, sb.1”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 866–867.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “sward”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • -wards, draws, wards

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • swerd, swerde, swarde, swarthe, swarth, suarth

Etymology

From Old English sweard, from Proto-Germanic *swarduz; compare Old Norse svǫrðr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsward/, /ˈswarθ/, /ˈswɛrd/

Noun

sward

  1. Sward: a location where grass exists.
  2. (Late Middle English) Skin, especially that on meat.
  3. Sward: The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.

Descendants

  • English: sward
  • Scots: swaird

References

  • “sward, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-23.

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