Swarf (?), v. i. [Cf. Swerve.]

To grow languid; to faint.

[Scot.] "To swarf for very hunger."

Sir W. Scott.

 

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Swarf, n. [Cf. Swerve.]

The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.

[Prov. Eng.]

 

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