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.