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  • Slavery
    The Bahamas never had the large-scale plantations found elsewhere except for the brief period from about 1785 to 1805 when
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  • swordfish
    [W Car. idem, from hypercorrection of saw to sawed, homophonous with sword /sahd/; W3 different sp.] n. the sawfish, Pristiophorus sp. (Eleu., San Sal.)
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  • sword bush
    [DJE Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus] n. a shrub, Xylophylla epiphyllanthus: 1920 (Britton 220). = ABRAHAM BUSH, HARD HEAD 3
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  • switching-neck
    [DJE idem; from its long, mobile neck] n. the Louisiana heron: 1910 Ardea tricolor ruficollis (Northrop 62). 1960 Hydranassa tricolor (Bond 36).
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  • switcher
    [cf. OED switchel US (origin unknown. Cf. swizzle) A drink made of molasses and water, sometimes with vinegar, ginger or rum
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  • switch
    [cf. OED swinge a forcible sweeping movement obs. 1696] n. a sudden, forcible movement: 1918 They sprang across de river with one
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  • swinging in the head
    [Car.; cf. OED swing sway and Twi tiri-mu ebu (lit. head-inside falling) light-headedness (K. Aboagye p.c.)] n. dizziness; a tendency to
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  • swinge
    v. 1. [Atlantic (Hancock 1969:40); OED idem obs. → 1790, now dial. in Brit. and US (ADD)] to singe or scorch: 1918
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  • swimp
    See STRIMP.
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  • swidger
    (Black); swidgy (Andros, San Sal.); swidgy water (Eleu.) [by voicing of /ch/ to /j/] = SWITCHER: We does like cook crab-and-dough
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