rare. [f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To equip or arm with a sword. (See also SWORDED.)
In quot. used satirically in reference to the previous speaker’s words, and in double sense: see 2.
a. 1616. Beaum. & Fl., Little Fr. Lawyer, IV. i. Sam. My kingdom for a sword! Cham. I’le sword you presently, I’le claw your skin coat too.
2. To strike, slash, or kill with a sword. Also absol. or intr.
1863. Sala, Captain Dangerous, III. iv. 144. That confounded Officer that I sworded.
1871. Tennyson, Last Tourn., 473. Swording right and left Men, women, on their sodden faces.
1882. Jefferies, Bevis, I. i. 14. The burdocks and the rest were [printed where] not up high enough yet, the Paynim scoundrels had not grown tall enough in May to be slain with any pleasure, and a sense that you were valiantly swording.
3. trans. (fig.) To thrust or put forth like a sword. nonce-use.
1827. Clare, Sheph. Cal., 53. And mint and flagleaf, swording high Their blooms to the unheeding eye.
