Associations to the word «Sward»

Wiktionary

SWARD, noun. (uncountable) A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod.
SWARD, noun. (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
SWARD, noun. (obsolete) (UK) (dialect) Skin; covering.

Dictionary definition

SWARD, noun. Surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky