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What is a sward?

What is a sward? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod.
  2. (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
  3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Skin; covering.
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Grown men and women cried openly as they swarmed on to the green sward of Croke Park.
This reduces the proportion of grass in the brassica-grass sward, which is not always advantageous.
A fresh northerly breeze and a wheen of fresh faces took to the well-grassed sward of Old Anniesland.
Farmers tell him that livestock graze the sward very tightly so there is no wastage.
When weeds become established in the sward grass grows much slower and the overall digestibility and palatability is reduced.
Across the sward a hare, its scut uplifted in alarm, scampers from the running crouch of a greyhound.

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