Swab

1. n. A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.
2. n. To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.
3. n. A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.
4. n. A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc.
5. n. An epaulet.
6. n. A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.