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Sparth vs Swarth - What's the difference?

sparth | swarth |

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)
  • (obsolete) A battle-axe or halberd.
  • * Chaucer
  • He hath a sparth of twenty pound of weight.
    (Webster 1913)

    swarth

    English

    Noun

  • * Herman Melville
  • Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths .
  • * Cowper
  • Grassy swarth , close cropped by nibbling sheep.
  • An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
  • (Grose)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) swarthy
  • * Chapman
  • A swarth complexion.

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