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Swinge   Listen
noun
Swinge  n.  
1.
The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing. (Obs.)
2.
Power; sway; influence. (Obs.)



verb
Swinge  v. t.  (past & past part. swinged; pres. part. swingeing)  
1.
To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. "I had swinged him soundly." "And swinges his own vices in his son."
2.
To move as a lash; to lash. (Obs.) "Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail."



Swinge  v., n.  See Singe. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Swinge" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'm his little boy's head. That's all the little boy William Tell and Adam and Eve got, but he ain't going to fall down and worship no gravy image on top a pole, so he put a tomahawk in his bosom and he tooken his bow and arrur and shot the apple plumb th'oo the middle and never swinge a hair of his head. And Eve nibble off the apple and give Adam the core, and Lina all time 'sputing 'bout Adam and Eve and William Tell ain't in the Bible. They ...
— Miss Minerva and William Green Hill • Frances Boyd Calhoun

... can form no idea of the number of Puffins actually breeding in the Channel Islands. The number of Puffins, however, at Burhou seem to me to have considerably diminished of late years, for in the summer of 1866, when going through the Swinge, we passed a great flock of these birds; "in fact, for more than a mile both air and water were swarming with them."[28] This certainly was not the case in either 1876 or 1878, though there were still a great many Puffins there; probably the continued egg-stealing has had some effect in ...
— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith

... Badmans road. He did it therefore of a dishonest mind, and to a wicked end; to wit, that he might have wherewithall, howsoever unlawfully gotten, to follow his Cups and Queans, and to live in the full swinge of his lusts, ...
— The Life and Death of Mr. Badman • John Bunyan

... brother's consorts, these, these are his Comrades, his walking mates, he's a gallant, a Cavaliero too, right hangman cut. God let me not live, an I could not find in my heart to swinge the whole nest of them, one after another, and begin with him first, I am grieved it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses, well, he shall hear on't, and that tightly too, an I ...
— Every Man In His Humour • Ben Jonson



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