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sweard

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
sweard, es; m. (?)
Sward ( = rind of bacon; cf. too green-sward the turf-covering of the earth), skin, hide
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  • Sweard cutis, fel

    pellis,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 283, 32-3.
  • Sweard cutis, rib costa, heorte

    cor,

    ii.
      16, 54-6.
  • Swearth

    cater,

      103, 22.
  • Suge sweard

    vistula,

      124, 1.
  • Swearð

    catrum,

      13, 52.
Etymology
[Swarde or sworde of flesche coriana, Prompt. Parv. 482. Turfe, swarde of þe erþe cespes, 506. O. Frs. swarde skin (of the head): Du. zwoord ; n. skin: M. H. Ger. swarte, swart; f. skin with hair on ; Ger. schwarte ; f. skin, rind: Icel. svörðr; m. the skin (especially of the head) ; hide of walrus; gras-, jaðar-svörðr green-sward.]
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