英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /swɔːv/
• (General American) IPA: /swɔɹv/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)v

動詞

swarve (third-person singular simple present swarves, present participle swarving, simple past and past participle swarved)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To swerve.
   • 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

     I holde it meet that there were onelye sewerties taken of them , and one bounde for another , wherbye , if anye shall swarve , his sewerties shall for safegarde of ther bandes bringe hyme in , or seeke to serve upon him

2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To climb.
   • 1571, Edwards, Damon and Pythias:

     Feede your eyes (quod you) the reason from my wisdom swarveth, / I stared on you both, and yet my belly starveth.

参照

• “swarve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• swaver, wavers