To hit, to strike.
And he whipped his sword out of its scabbard, and swapped off the pudding from the black knight's nose. Unfortunately (for him) he swapped off a good bit of the nose, too.
To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
An exchange of two comparable things.
I e’en changed it, as occasion served, with the skippers o’ Dutch luggers and French vessels, for gin and brandy[…] a gude swap too, between what cheereth the soul of man and that which dingeth it clean out of his body
From Middle English swappen (“to swap”), originally meaning "to hurl" or "to strike", the word alludes to striking hands together when making an exchange; probably from Old English *swappian, a second...
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A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of non-normal cashflow against another stream.
A blow; a stroke.