ppl. a. [f. SWARD sb. or v. + -ED.] Covered with a sward or grassy turf; turfed.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, XII. Prol. 65. The swardit soyll enbrovd wyth selcouth hewis.

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1669.  Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 231. To pare off the Turf of soarded-Land.

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1788.  Hurdis, Village Curate (1797), 48. A green swarded wainway. Ibid. (1800), Fav. Village, 131. The mellow ground Along the swarded vale.

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1868.  Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869), 351. The … escape of rain-fall from the surface of cleared and swarded land.

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1879.  Stevenson, Trav. Donkey, 173. Many … chestnuts stood together, making an aisle upon a swarded terrace.

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