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Webster 1913 Edition


Swarve

Swarve

,
Verb.
I.
[See
Swerve
.]
1.
To swerve.
[Obs. or Scot.]
Spenser. Jamieson.
2.
To climb.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition


Swarve

SWARVE

,
Verb.
I.
To swerve. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


swarve

swarve

English

Verb

swarve (third-person singular simple present swarves, present participle swarving, simple past and past participle swarved)

  1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) To swerve.
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  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To climb.
    'Feede your eyes (quod you) the reason from my wisdom swarveth, / I stared on you both, and yet my belly starveth.' (Edwards, Damon and Pythias, 1571)
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