Definitions for swards

swards sward

Spelling: [swawrd]
IPA: /swɔrd/

Swards is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in swards (adrssw).

Definitions for swards

noun

  1. the grassy surface of land; turf.
  2. a stretch of turf; a growth of grass.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cover with sward or turf.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become covered with sward.

Origin of swards

before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English sweard skin, rind; cognate with German Schwarte rind, Old Frisian swarde scalp, Middle Dutch swaerde skin

Examples for swards

It is but a strip of sward, but it is as wild as if in the midst of a forest.

The hills, though of great declivity, have a sward to their tops.

The priest had seen it, for he had the child pickaback and was running across the sward.

Quickly the earth was shovelled in, and soon two mounds showed on the sward.

But why the agonized dancing on the sward of the inferior part of the reptile?

The green of the sward had that pale look it puts on with the last rays, or with the dawning.

He was lying along the sward, upon his side, half doubled up.

His footstep, as it stole to me, had fallen on the sward without sound.

Directly in front of us, the sward was cut and scored by numerous tracks.

His deemsters and barons are about him, and his people are on the sward below.

Word Value for swards
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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