Sward vs Usward - What's the difference?
sward | usward |
(lb) A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod.
* (1809-1892)
*:The sward was trim as any garden lawn.
(lb) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
*1890 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), ''(w)
*:.
*1918 , (Booth Tarkington), ''(w)
*:Only where George stood was there left a sward as of yore; the great, level, green lawn that served for both the Major's house and his daughter's.
Skin; covering.
:(Halliwell)
(archaic) Toward us.
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Andrew Lang, title=A Monk of Fife, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Then I, whose eyes were keen, saw, blown usward from Margny, a cloud of flying dust, that in Scotland we call stour. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=William Morris, title=The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But the Gods have sent him to usward to work us measureless good: It is even Sigurd the Volsung, the best man ever born, The man that the Gods withstand not, my friend, and my brother sworn." }}
As a noun sward
is (lb) a layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod.As an adverb usward is
(archaic) toward us.sward
English
Alternative forms
* swarth * swart * swerdNoun
(en noun)Company
Ambersons
Synonyms
* (earth into which grass has grown ): grass, turf, sod * (land covered with grass ): clearing, field, greensward, lawn, meadow, yardDerived terms
* greenswardAnagrams
* *References
usward
English
Alternative forms
* uswardsAdverb
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