Sward

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.

   “His eyes he op'nd, and beheld a field, / Part arable and tilth, whereon were Sheaves / New reapt, the other part ſheep-walks and foulds; / Ith' midſt an Altar as the Land-mark ſtood / Ruſtic, of graſſie ſord; […]”

2. isim An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.

   “[O]f a sudden the trees began to thin and the sward to spread out onto a broad, green lawn, where five cows lay in the sunshine and droves of black swine wandered unchecked.”

3. isim The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it.

   “The roots of the Apple-tree, Olive, and Cypreſſe, lie very ebbe, and creepe hard under the ſourd of the ground.”

4. isim The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
5. fiil To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
6. fiil Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.

   “[Land...] will not sward again […]”

7. isim A homosexual man.
8. özel isim A surname.