n. — Outdoors
a rapid current in a river.
Type: 2. Preservation — Swift in its nominal use is likely a preservation from British English, as OED-3 (s.v. "swift" (n.26)) lists the meaning with citations dating back to 17th century England. OED-3 also marks the meaning as obsolete and rare, which is reflected in the limited number of citations from written sources.
See also COD-2, s.v. "swift" (n.3), which is marked "Cdn".
- We leave the term here as a suggested Preservation in Canadian English, yet our methods we were unable to confirm COD-2's claim due to excessive noise. This meaning may be a (rare, or narrowly applied) preservation overall, with no particular Canadian dimension (as described in Dollinger 2015c).