swad

Definitions

1. 1.A clown; a country bumpkin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Country swains, and silly swads." Greene. There was one busy fellow was their leader, A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself. B. Jonson.
2. 2.A lump of mass; also, a crowd. [Low, U.S.]
3. 3.(Coal Mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam. Raymond.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is a clown; a country bumpkin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Country swains, and silly swads." Greene. There was one busy fellow was their leader, A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself. B. Jonson called?
• What is a lump of mass; also, a crowd. [Low, U.S.] called?
• What is a thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam. Raymond called?