Category:Swad

Swad, n. Etym: [probably fr. As. swe to bind.] [written also swod.]

1. A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [prov. Eng.] Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, Shallow-headed fellow. Blount.

2. A clown; a country bumpkin. [obs. or prov. Eng.] "country swains, And silly swads." Greene. There was one busy fellow was their leader, a blunt, squat swad, but Lower than yourself. B. Jonson.

3. A lump of mass; also, a crowd. [low, u.s.]

4. (coal mining)

Defn: a thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam. Raymond.