資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Swad \Swad\, n. [Probably fr. AS. swe?ian to bind.] [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.'' --Greene.

            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. --Raymond.