Swad

n.	1.	A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell - thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow. - Blount.
	2.	A clown; a country bumpkin. There was one busy fellow was their leader, A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself. - B. Jonson.
	3.	A lump of mass; also, a crowd.
	4.	(Coal Mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.

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Swad a thick mass, clump, or bunch; a great quantity, 1828.

Examples: swad of fine folk, 1833; of grass, 1833; of hair, 1844; of words, 1855.

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swad - a bunch; "a thick swad of plants" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech bunch, clump, cluster, clustering - a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"