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swarves

swarves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of swarve.

Meaning of swarve

Verb

swarve (third-person singular simple present swarves, present participle swarving, simple past and past participle swarved)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To swerve.
    • I holde it meet that there were onelye sewerties taken of them , and one bounde for another , wherbye , if anye shall swarve , his sewerties shall for safegarde of ther bandes bringe hyme in , or seeke to serve upon him1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To climb.
    • Feede your eyes (quod you) the reason from my wisdom swarveth, / I stared on you both, and yet my belly starveth.1571, Edwards, Damon and Pythias

Questions about swarves

What is swarves the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Swarves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of swarve.

Words near swarves in the dictionary

  1. Swartzentruber
  2. Swartzentrubers
  3. swartzite
  4. swarve
  5. swarved
  6. swarves
  7. swarving
  8. Swasey
  9. Swaseys
  10. swash
  11. swash letter

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