sward

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D is a great sward to fight with, and it has a machine gun in it."

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surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots

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noun

surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sward.

noun

surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots

Example sentences

D is a great sward to fight with, and it has a machine gun in it."

You can think of it a bit like a lawn, where the roots and runners of the grass forms a sward. With a knife, you can pull up the mat by hand.

I even saw words I never heard of before, like "sward". For anyone like me - it's a lawn or a meadow.

It's a double edged sward like that of free speech allowing opinions we don't want to hear amongst those that we do need to here. I think the best approach is education.

O feel-of-primrose hands, O feet That want the yield of plushy sward, But you shall walk the golden street And you unhouse and house the Lord. And, Poverty, be thou the bride And now the marriage feast begun, And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse not laboured-at nor spun.

Forced arbitration can be a double edged sward for the corporations too. A while back, a company filed a motion to dismiss a class-action case because everyone signed arbitration agreements.

This is a "double-edged sward" that has resulted in considerable "brain drain" to other countries. But we are seeing many Portuguese educated people who have worked abroad returning to start their own companies now which is really promising!