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third-person singular simple present swives, present participle swiving, simple past and past participle swived
(archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman). quotations
'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive
c. 1674, John, Earl of Rochester Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II
“You were in such heat to swive me, you tore the clothes from your body.”
2005, Sophia B. Johnson, Risk Everything
He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he? Surely he was not so heathen as that.
2008, Sarah McKerrigan, Lady Danger
His mother was a holy damned fool and swiving her was like rogering a prayerful mouse, and the bloody fool thinks he's taken after her, but he hasn't.
2009, Bernard Cornwell, Gallows Thief
'Oh swive', said Markham. 'What the swive could those swiving swivers possibly swiving well want?'
2019, Jodi Taylor, Argumentation of Historians
(archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. quotations
The cradled scythes of the Vale of Towey were scarcely known in the Vale of Teivy; and the swiving method of reaping wheat in the latter, was as little known in the former ...
1815, Walter Davies, Agricultural Surveys: pts. 1-2. South Wales (1815), Board of Agriculture, page 426
Swiving is a method first adopted apparently in Cardiganshire ...
1815, Walter Davies, General view of the agriculture and domestic economy of South Wales, Volume 1, Board of Agriculture, page 425
swive ... to cut grain or beans with a broad hook; to mow with a reaping-hook ... "swiver": a reaper who "swives" the grain
1905, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, page 893
We started swiving, that is reaping, at the beginning of August-month, and we left the stooks [stalks] standing in the fields ...
1929, Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Precious Bane
Moreover, according to Walter Davies "swiving" was a method of reaping first adopted in Cardiganshire.
1955, Ceredigion: Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Association, volumes 2-3, Ceredigion Historical Society, page 160