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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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Across the sward a hare, its scut uplifted in alarm, scampers from the running crouch of a greyhound.
She opened her eyes just in time to impact roughly among a sward of yellow-green grass into soft turf.
A fresh northerly breeze and a wheen of fresh faces took to the well-grassed sward of Old Anniesland.
When weeds become established in the sward grass grows much slower and the overall digestibility and palatability is reduced.
There is evidence that Yorkshire fog may have an allelopathic effect on other plants in the sward.
We sat with a picnic basket on a green sward and my former employer looked even more like a brigadier in his bulky battledress.

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