swift
/swɪft/ noun C2- A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.
- Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.
- A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.
- Any of various fast-flying hesperiid butterflies.
- A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or balls.
- The main cylinder of a carding-machine.
Plural swifts
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We were both swift runners and in fairly good training, but we soon found that we had no chance of overtaking him.
Orders to buy and sell were coming and going as swift as the flight of swallows.
He pulled away with swift defiant strokes, and Anne went up the steep, ferny little path under the maples.
But it was a jolly, busy, happy swift-flying winter.
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