swarve

swarve

English

Etymology

See swerve.

Verb

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

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) To swerve.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

2. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) To climb.
   • 1571, Edwards, Damon and Pythias

     Feede your eyes (quod you) the reason from my wisdom swarveth, / I stared on you both, and yet my belly starveth.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for swarve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• swaver, wavers