a. [f. SWARD sb. + -Y.] Covered with sward, swarded, turfy.

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1639.  T. de Grey, Compl. Horsem., i. 244. Soft moyst swardy ground.

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1733.  Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husb., xx. 292. Must we have Recourse to the Spade for breaking up our rich, strong, swerdy Land?

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1857.  G. H. Kingsley, Sport & Trav. (1900), 448. Her swardy, heathery, broom-birch-and-gorse-fringed banks.

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1899.  J. Mactaggart, Mackinnon & Bards, I. vi. 7. Late primroses and bright bluebells Bloom’d by them in the swardy dells.

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