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swerd

swerd is the obsolete form of sword.

Meaning of sword

Noun

sword (plural swords)

  1. (countable) A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
    • He took out his sword and stabbed the man in the stomach.
  2. A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
    1. A card of this suit.
  3. One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
  4. (figuratively) Violence; military might.

See all 7 meanings of sword

Forms of swerd

pluralswerds

Questions about swerd

What is swerd the obsolete form of?
Swerd is the obsolete form of sword.

Words near swerd in the dictionary

  1. swept-back
  2. swept-wing
  3. sweptback
  4. sweptwing
  5. SWER
  6. swerd
  7. Swerdloff
  8. swere
  9. swerf
  10. Swerford
  11. swerfs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swerd (page history and authors); sword (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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