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Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion..

Swing :: Swing (v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other..

Swinged :: Swinge (v. & n.) See Singe.

Davit :: Davit (n.) Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits..

Swingle :: Swingle (v. t.) To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty..

Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle..

Outboard :: Outboard (a. & adv.) Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard..

Swipper :: Swiple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.

Swinish :: Swingtree (n.) The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.

Swinge :: Swingdevil (n.) The European swift.

Swinger :: Swinger (n.) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing..

Racktail :: Racktail (n.) An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock..

Swingle :: Swinger (n.) A person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.

Oscillate :: Oscillate (v. i.) To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.

Switch :: Switch (v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane..

Evener :: Evener (n.) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast..

Whippletree :: Whippletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree..

Swinger :: Swingel (n.) The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.

Capling :: Capling (n.) The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel..

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