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Swat   /swɑt/   Listen
Swat

noun
1.
A sharp blow.



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"Swat" Quotes from Famous Books



... are," jeered Quinnion, with a sullen sort of defiance. "You swat me over the head while I ain't lookin' an' then bring me in here where they're all your friends. If I drop you I get all mussed up with their bullets. ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory

... the lookout for opportunities that will sell the shirt off his back to raise money when he thinks he sees an opening. Then there ain't no fun nor Christianity in making money out of a fool. I want to know that a feller is up to snuff and fairly in the game, and then I'll swat 'im if it is in my power. It's been the ambition of my life to get the best of old Welborne across the street there. He's made his pile off of widows and orphans, and if I ever get him under my thumb I'll crack ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben

... and Montgomery met, And weel a wot they warna fain; They swaped swords, and they twa swat, And ay the blood ran ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang

... the Duglas and the Perse met, Lyk to Captayns of myght and of mayne, They swapte together tylle they both swat With swordes that wear of ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang

... American ideas of liberty and of justice, the parliamentary revolutionists who got possession of power in France in 1879 have so twisted to their own ends this French Constitution of 1875, that their government of the Third French Republic in 1890 really resembles the government of the Akhoond of Swat about as nearly as it resembles the government of ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... a sang. Aye the mair he thocht, the mair he thocht o' the black man. He tried the prayer, an' the words wouldnae come to him; an' he tried, they say, to write at his book, but he could nae mak' nae mair o' that. There was whiles he thocht the black man was at his oxter, an' the swat stood upon him cauld as well-water; and there was other whiles, when he cam to himsel' like a christened bairn and ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson

... Inscriptions from Swat written in an alphabet supposed to date from 50 B.C. to 50 A.D. contain Sanskrit verses from the Dharmapada and Mahaparinirvanasutra. See Epig. ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

... that he hears me coming toward his head, and I can often see him, waiting with clenched teeth until he thinks that I am near enough to swat. Sometimes I strike a quick little grace-note, as if I were right above him and about to make a landing. It is great fun at such times to see him suddenly strike himself over the ear (they always think that I am right at their ear), and then feel carefully between his finger tips to see ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley

... Coast Castle. Having devastated the country by fire and sword, they soon after annexed the greater part of Denkera to their kingdom, driving the surviving inhabitants to the south-east, where they are at present settled near the Swat River, which falls into the sea between Cape ...
— Our Soldiers - Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign • W.H.G. Kingston

... Lascars, and the first mate, a typical comic magazine Irishman, delivered himself of the following: "Sure, toward the last some o' thim haythen gits down on their knees and starts calling on Allah: but I sez, sez I, 'Git up afore I swat ye wid the ax handle, ye benighted haythen; sure if this boat gits saved 't will be the Holy Virgin does it or none at all, at all! Git ...
— Best Short Stories • Various

... at Harvard all that fall. First Phinney, our 208-pound left guard, dislocated his shoulder in the Indian game; then Hobb, full back, got a swat on the head that sent him to the Infirmary for two weeks; then Jones, our best half, hurt his leg. Those were the principal troubles, but there were lots of smaller ones besides. Every team that came to Cambridge ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour

... Douglas met, I wot he was fu' fain: They swakkit swords, and they twa swat, Till the ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)

... them myself," says Patsy, "and I suppose you're after takin' my place, ye spalpeen; I have a right to swat your face ...
— Snow on the Headlight - A Story of the Great Burlington Strike • Cy Warman



Words linked to "Swat" :   blow, Sultan of Swat, hit, swatter, SWAT squad, SWAT team



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