sweb

English

From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *swabbjan, from Proto-Germanic *swabjaną, *swēbijaną (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja (“to put to sleep, lull, soothe”), Latin sōpiō (“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.

sweb (third-person singular simple present swebs, present participle swebbing, simple past and past participle swebbed)

(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To swoon; faint.
Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.
She fainted, all drenched in sweat, from the heat of the desert sun.

sweb (plural swebs)