Swad (?), n. [Probably fr. AS. sweian 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.
© Webster 1913.