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• 'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive
• “You were in such heat to swive me, you tore the clothes from your body.”
• 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.
• He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he? Surely he was not so heathen as that.
• 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 ...
• Swiving is a method first adopted apparently in Cardiganshire ...
• swive ... to cut grain or beans with a broad hook; to mow with a reaping-hook ... "swiver": a reaper who "swives" the grain
• We started swiving, that is reaping, at the beginning of August-month, and we left the stooks [stalks] standing in the fields ...
• Moreover, according to Walter Davies "swiving" was a method of reaping first adopted in Cardiganshire.