Associations to the word «Swad»

Wiktionary

SWAD, noun. A bunch, clump, mass
SWAD, noun. (obsolete) (slang) A crowd; a group of people.
SWAD, noun. (obsolete) A boor, lout.
SWAD, noun. (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
SWAD, noun. (UK) (dialect) (obsolete) (Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.

Dictionary definition

SWAD, noun. A bunch; "a thick swad of plants".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats