Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
sward .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sword.
- obsolete See
sward , n. & v.
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Examples
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And he made him to ben clept Melechmanser: the whiche on a day pleyed at the chesse, and his swerd lay besyde him; and so befelle, that on wratthed62 him, and with his owne propre swerd he was slayn.
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And at morwe, whan he fond the heremyte ded, he was fulle sory and wrothe, and wolde have don his men to dethe: but they alle with on accord seyd, that he him self had slayn him, when he was dronken, and schewed him his swerd alle blody: and he trowed, that thei hadden seyd sothe.
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Thanne seythe the emperour, now undirstondethe wel, that my woord from hens forthe, is scharp and bytynge as a swerd.
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And in that same place, David saughe the aungelle, that smot the folk with a swerd, and put it up blody in the schethe.
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And in that same place, David saughe the aungelle, that smot the folk with a swerd, and put it up blody in the schethe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And he made him to ben clept Melechmanser: the whiche on a day pleyed at the chesse, and his swerd lay besyde him; and so befelle, that on wratthed508 him, and with his owne propre swerd he was slayn.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And at morwe, whan he fond the heremyte ded, he was fulle sory and wrothe, and wolde have don his men to dethe: but they alle with on accord seyd, that he him self had slayn him, when he was dronken, and schewed him his swerd alle blody: and he trowed, that thei hadden seyd sothe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Thanne seythe the emperour, now undirstondethe wel, that my woord from hens forthe, is scharp and bytynge as a swerd.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"All the field was with blod ouer roun" -- "Many a good swerd was broken ther" -- "Many a fadirles child ther was at home."
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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His swerd a-noon out of his shethe he twighte, 1185
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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