Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To swerve; incline to one side.
- To climb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Obs. or Scot. To swerve.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To climb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete To
swerve . - verb UK, dialect, obsolete To
climb .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Apparently a mattress flew off someones car and someone had to swarve (spelling?) to miss it but they ended up hitting someone head on in the other lane.
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But God, for his awin glorie, for the comforte of his servand, and for manifestatioun of thare beastly tyranny, had otherwiese decreed; for he so strenthened his faythfull witnes, that nether the luif of lyif, nor yitt the fear of that cruell death, could move him a joit to swarve from the trewth ones professed.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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If you grub her out, the bank she'll all come tearin 'down, an' next floods the brook'll swarve up.
Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Yes people, tonight I am a swarve business man in my funkadalic room.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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If you grub her out, the bank she’ll all come tearin’ down, an’ next floods the brook’ll swarve up.
Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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