SPage 694
- English Word Swing Definition A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
- English Word Swing Definition Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
- English Word Swing Definition Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- English Word Swing Definition Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
- English Word Swingdevil Definition The European swift.
- English Word Swinge Definition See Singe.
- English Word Swinge Definition To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.
- English Word Swinge Definition To move as a lash; to lash.
- English Word Swinge Definition The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.
- English Word Swinge Definition Power; sway; influence.
- English Word Swingebuckler Definition A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
- English Word Swinged Definition of Swinge
- English Word Swingeing Definition of Swinge
- English Word Swingeing Definition Huge; very large.
- English Word Swingel Definition The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
- English Word Swinger Definition One who swings or whirls.
- English Word Swinger Definition One who swinges.
- English Word Swinger Definition Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
- English Word Swinger Definition A person who engages frequently in lively and fashionable pursuits, such as attending night clubs or discos.
- English Word Swinger Definition A person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.
- English Word Swinging Definition of Swing
- English Word Swingle Definition To dangle; to wave hanging.
- English Word Swingle Definition To swing for pleasure.
- English Word Swingle Definition To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.
- English Word Swingle Definition To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
- English Word Swingle Definition A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.
- English Word Swinglebar Definition A swingletree.
- English Word Swingled Definition of Swingle
- English Word Swingletail Definition The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.
- English Word Swingletree Definition A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.