swarfed

Verb (1)

swarf (third-person singular simple present swarfs, present participle swarfing, simple past and past participle swarfed)

1. (transitive) To grind down.
   • A machine for swarfing the joining edges of parts or sub-assemblies having compound angle surfaces is announced by the Rockford Machine Tool Co., Rockford, 111.1958, “Rockford Hydraulic Swarfing Machine”, in Machinery, volume 65, part 2, New York, N.Y.: Industrial Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 160, column 1

Verb (2)

swarf (third-person singular simple present swarfs, present participle swarfing, simple past and past participle swarfed)

1. (Scotland, intransitive, obsolete) To grow languid; to faint.
   • Meg, rinnin like a flae in blanket, / Her coats upon a lang nail hanket, / That gart her coup the creels [i.e., fall head over heels] an' ſqueel, / "Ah! Sirce, I'm gruppet by a de'il!" / An' as ſhe near the threſhold lay, / Wae's me! ſhe near hand ſwarf'd away!1796, “G.” [i.e., Richard Gall], “The Tint Quey;^([sic – meaning Cow]) or Thrawart Maggy”, in Archibald Steel, Richard Gall, The Twa Cuckolds; and The Tint Quey, or Thrawart Maggy. Two Tales, in the...

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