swape

• “Och! hinny, and how can I swape the floor without a brum?" said”

  Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick

• “If I was to swape till I fell prostitute, I'd niver git it clane.”

  Explorers of the Dawn

• “Bobs an 'a few three-year-olds, I'd swape any army av the earth into a towel, an' throw it away aftherward.”

  Indian Tales

• “Wid Bobs an 'a few three-year-olds, I'd swape any army av the earth into a towel, an' throw it away aftherwards.”

  Soldier Stories

• “First, comes a great big loaded automobile drivin 'up, and stopped in front with a flourish an' out hops as nice an 'nate a lookin' lad as ever you clapped your eyes on, an 'up he comes to me an' off goes his hat with a swape, an 'he hands me that bundle an' he says: 'Here's something Miss”

  Her Father's Daughter

• “An 'you're a dirty low swape av a Dutchman to let that woman av yours use a native wor-rud in the captain's hearin'," and Deasy banged his fellow-trader between the eyes, as at the same moment Manogi and”

  Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898

• “Why, don't you know, Patsy," replied his friend, "that it manes our party have made a clane swape of the cowld-wather men?”

  From Wealth to Poverty

• “Bedad," she said aloud, "to-morrer I'll clane thim lamp-chimbleys and swape the bidrooms.”

  The Girl at Cobhurst

• “Tyne watermen are called, manage with great dexterity; the vessel being guided by the aid of the “swape,” or great oar, which is used as a kind of rudder at the stern of the vessel.”

  Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

• “-- the divil swape yourself and your tongs, 'says I,' I don't want”

  Stories of Comedy

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