What is to climb or move upward by winding or turning. The tree was high; Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved. Dryden called?
swerve — To climb or move upward by winding or turning. The tree was high; Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved. Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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