meadow vs sward

meadow

noun
  • A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay. 

  • Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea. 

sward

noun
  • An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. 

  • The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something. 

  • A homosexual man. 

  • Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth. 

verb
  • Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward. 

  • To cover (ground, etc.) with sward. 

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