In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
swad
(noun) a bunch; “a thick swad of plants”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
swad (plural swads)
A bunch, clump, mass
(obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
(obsolete) A boor, lout.
(mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
(UK, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
• (bunch, clump): bunch, clump, mass
• AWDS, AWDs, DAWs, Daws, WASD, daws, wads
Source: Wiktionary
Swad, n. Etym: [Probably fr. AS. swe 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)
Definition: A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam. Raymond.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.