Sparth vs Swarth - What's the difference?
sparth | swarth |
(obsolete) A battle-axe or halberd.
* Chaucer
* Herman Melville
* Cowper
An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
As nouns the difference between sparth and swarth
is that sparth is (obsolete) a battle-axe or halberd while swarth is .As an adjective swarth is
(archaic) swarthy.sparth
English
Noun
(en noun)- He hath a sparth of twenty pound of weight.
swarth
English
Noun
- Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths .
- Grassy swarth , close cropped by nibbling sheep.
- (Grose)