Definition of swing

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Swing (n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum..

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Swinge :: Swinge (n.) The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.
Swing :: Swing (n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum..
Swinge :: Swinge (v. t.) To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.
Vibrate :: Vibrate (v. t.) To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff..
Swingletail :: Swinglebar (n.) A swingletree.
Swingle :: Swingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swingl.
Swag :: Swag (v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing..
Swinger :: Swinger (n.) One who swinges.
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..
Swing :: Swing (v. t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter..
Swipper :: Swiple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging..
Guest Rope :: Guest rope () The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.
Sidewinder :: Sidewinder (n.) A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary..
Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc..
Swinged :: Swinge (v. & n.) See Singe.
Swing :: Swing (n.) To be hanged.
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.
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..
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