to swap

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To exchange; to barter.--Johnson.


This word has often been noticed by English travellers in this country, and may, perhaps, be more common here than in England; but it is also used by the vulgar in that country.--Pickering.

When I drove a thrust home, he put it by,

And cried as in derision. "Spare the stripling."

Oh, that insulting word I would have swopp'd

Youth for old age, and all my life behind,

To have been then a momentary man.--Dryden, Cleom.

He makes me an offer to swap his mare.--Edgeworth's Castle Rack Rent.

I'm for a short talk in a horse-swap, and always tell a gentlemen what I wish to do.--Georgia Scenes, p. 28.

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