Swad

"[…]Ye'd oughta see th' swad a' chil'ren I've got, an' all like that."

Sham’st thou not coistrel, loathsome dunghill swad.

There was one busy fellow was their leader, / A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself.

Country swains, and silly swads.

They must bee gathered in the decrease of the moone, presently vpon their being ripe, for else they drie vp and fall out of their swads:

... the Bean is not seen till first it be unhusk'd, and that its swad or hull be shaled, and pilled from off it : […]

Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell — thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.

... it is the stem and leaf that is wanted , more than the swad or grain.

It is a fruit growing on a tree, a species of acacia. "The pods hang down, and only the swad is used for feeding cattle." Why , then , does the Chancellor of the Exchequer tax locust beans as a kind of wheat? Have his Park-lane friends warned him against manna?