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Definition of Swarve
1. v. i. To swerve.
Definition of Swarve
1. to faint [v SWARVED, SWARVING, SWARVES] - See also: faint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swarve
Literary usage of Swarve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"When the channel of a river or a ditch becomes choked up with any sediment
deposited by the water running into it, it is said to swarve up. ..."
2. The Book of the Courtier from the Italian of Count Baldassare Castiglione by Baldassarre Castiglione (1900)
"... and to appere wise and of authoritie, wil swarve from the commission of their
heades, whiche is a very yll matter, and often times the cause of infinite ..."
3. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"Turn not thy face from me, do not swarve from thy servant in anger." Ps. xxvii.
Primer. SWAT, To squat, to sit down, s' asseoir. Miege. ..."
4. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"To swarve, vn To fill up; to be choked up with sediment. When the channel of a
river or a ditch becomes choked up with any sediment, deposited by the water ..."
5. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"Turn not thy face from me, do not swarve from thy servant in anger." Ps. xxvii.
Primer. SWAT, To squat, to sit down, ..."
6. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1863)
"Enraged at the loss of these faithful followers, Sir Andrew declares that he
will "swarve," or in other words that he will climb up the mast himself, ..."
7. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw, John White Masters (1887)
"When the channel of a river or a ditch becomes choked up with any sediment
deposited by the water running into it, it is said to swarve up. ..."
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