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Swive

//swaɪv// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To copulate with (a woman). archaic, transitive

    "'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive"

  2. 2
    To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. archaic, dialectal, transitive

    "The cradled scythes of the Vale of Towey were scarcely known in the Vale of Teivy; and the swiving method of reaping wheat in the latter, was as little known in the former ..."

Etymology

From Middle English swiven, from Old English swīfan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve”), from Proto-Germanic *swībaną (“to wipe, sweep”). Cognate with Old Frisian swīva, swīfa (“to waver”), Old Norse svīfa (“to drift, ramble, rove”), Norwegian Nynorsk sviva (“to rotate, wander”). Related to Old English swift (“swift”), Middle English swyvel (“swivel”).

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