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 Swad n.  [Written also swod.]
 1. A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [Prov. Eng.]
    Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.   --Blount.
 2. A clown; a country bumpkin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] “Country swains, and silly swads.”
 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. [Low, U.S.]
 4. Coal Mining A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
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 swad
      n : a bunch; "a thick swad of plants"