Swad

n.	1.	A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell - thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow. - Blount.
	2.	A clown; a country bumpkin. 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.
	4.	(Coal Mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.

Noun

swad - a bunch; "a thick swad of plants"