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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

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To swerve.

[Obs. or Scot.]

Spenser. Jamieson.

To climb.

[Prov. Eng.]

Halliwell.

Verb.

To swerve. [Not in use.]

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

(Britain, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) To swerve.

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(Britain, dialect, obsolete) To climb.

'Feede your eyes (quod you) the reason from my wisdom swarveth, / I stared on you both, and yet my belly starveth.' (Edwards, Damon and Pythias, 1571)

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