sward

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

sward, n. [AS. sweard skin, covering; akin to OFries. swarge, D. zwoord, G. schwarte, Icel. svörr skin, sward of the earth.].

•  Skin; covering.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]
•  The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.  [1913 Webster]

  "The sward was trim as any garden lawn."  [1913 Webster]

Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. [Prov. Eng.]

sward, v. t. & i. 

 To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.  Mortimer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sward, n. literary 1 an expanse of short grass.
2 turf.

Derivative

swarded adj.

Etymology

OE sweard skin

ROGET THESAURUS

sward

Plain

N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.