Swad (?), n. [Probably fr. AS.
swe?ian 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.