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Swarve

//swɔː(ɹ)v// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To swerve. UK, dialectal, obsolete

    "I holde it meet that there were onelye sewerties taken of them , and one bounde for another , wherbye , if anye shall swarve , his sewerties shall for safegarde of ther bandes bringe hyme in , or seeke to serve upon him"

  2. 2
    To climb. UK, dialectal, obsolete

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

Etymology

See swerve.

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