What is "swod"

Swad \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.

n. (alternative form of swad English)

SWOD may refer to:

• The pointer (user interface)
• A Special Weapons Ordnance Device (SWOD), the antiship variant of the Bat (guided bomb)
• The basement area of Selfridges, Oxford Street, named after the four streets - Somerset, Wigmore, Orchard and Duke – that once enclosed it.