Definition of swing

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Swing (n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide..

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Swinged :: Swinge (v. & n.) See Singe.
Swing :: Swing (v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open..
Upsway :: Upsway (v. t.) To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club..
Swingle :: Swingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swingl.
Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
Swing :: Swinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swin.
Dangle :: Dangle (v. t.) To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet..
Trapeze :: Trapeze (n.) A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; -- used by gymnasts..
Swing :: Swing (n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing..
Swipper :: Swiple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.
Girt :: Girt (a.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
Swythe :: Swung () imp. & p. p. of Swing.
Racktail :: Racktail (n.) An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock..
Flail :: Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely..
Swinger :: Swinger (n.) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing..
Singletree :: Singletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
Swingling :: Swingled (imp. & p. p.) of Swingl.
Traversing :: Traversing (a.) Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion..
Swingeing :: Swingebuckler (n.) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
Wiper :: Wiper (n.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam..
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