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▪ I. swarve, v.1 local (Kent and Sussex).|swɔːv|
Also 5–6 pa. pple. swared.
[Cf. the synonymous quar v.1]
Chiefly pass., to be choked up with sediment, to be silted up. Hence ˈswarving vbl. n.
1485Rolls of Parlt. VI. 331/1 The said Ryver, at the said place called Sarre..is so swared, growen, and hyghed with wose,..that nowe no Fery..may be there. 1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 30 The Channell there is so choked swared and fylled uppe, that there cannot lye in the same Harborowe [of Camber, near Rye] above thirtie or fowrtie saylle of Shippes. 1562in W. Holloway's Hist. Romney Marsh (1849) 141 A creek or waterway swawed [sic] or dried up. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1545/2 The hauens mouth would..haue soone beene swarued vp. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 544 A narrow way almost swarved up with rubbidge. 1665in W. Holloway's Hist. Romney Marsh (1849) 165 When the ditches and bounds be swarved up. 1701Wallis in Phil. Trans. XXII. 978 At Hythe in Kent (which is one of the Cinq-Ports) there was..a Convenient Harbour for small Vessels; which is now swarved up. 1904M. S. Rawson Apprentice 17 The swarving of river channels with sand and shingle. 1906Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 250 Next floods the brook'll swarve up.
▪ II. † swarve, v.2 Obs.
[Of doubtful origin; see the synonymous swarm v.2 (North. dialects have swarble beside swarmle in the same sense.)]
= swarm v.2 (intr. and trans.).
15..Isumbras 351 (Douce MS. 261, lf. 7) He swarued [ed. Copland (c 1550) swarmed] vp in to a tree Whyle ether of them myght other see. a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 107 He swarves up to his seat as to a saile-yard. a1650Sir A. Barton liii. in Child Ballads (1889) III. 341/2 With that hee swarued the maine-mast tree [another version, ibid. 345/1 Then up the mast-tree swarved he]. 1844M. A. Richardson's Historian's Table-bk., Leg. Div. II. 393 Now leaping, now swarving the slipp'ry steep.
▪ III. swarve
see swarf v., swerve. |