Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: SWING'ING-LY – SWIV-EL
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SWING'ING-LY, adv.
Vastly; hugely. [Vulgar.]
SWIN'GLE, n.
In wire-works, a wooden spoke fixed to barrel that draws the wire; also, a crank. – Cyc.
SWIN'GLE, v.i. [from swing.]
- To dangle; to wave hanging.
- To swing for pleasure. [Not in use.]
SWIN'GLE, v.t. [Sax. swingan, to beat. See Swing.]
To beat; to clean flax by beating it with a wooden instrument resembling a large knife, and called in New England swingling-knife. Flax is first broke and then swingled.
SWIN'GLED, pp.
Beat and cleaned by a swingling-knife.
SWIN'GLE-TREE, n.
A whiffle-tree or whipple-tree.
SWIN'GLING, ppr.
Beating and cleaning, as flax.
SWIN'GLING-KNIFE, or SWIN'GLE, n.
A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for cleaning flax of the shives.
SWIN'GLING-TOW, n.
The coarse part of flax, separate from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.
SWING'-TREE, n. [swing and tree.]
The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened. In America, it often or generally called the whiffle-tree, or whipple-tree.
SWING'-WHEEL, n. [swing and wheel.]
In a time-piece, the wheel which drives the pendulum. In a watch or balance clock, it is called the crown-wheel. – Cyc.
SWIN-ISH, a. [from swine.]
Befitting swine; like swine; gross; hoggish; brutal; as, a swinish drunkard or sot; swinish gluttony.
SWIN-ISH-LY, adv.
In a swinish manner.
SWINK, n.
Labor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.] – Spenser.
SWINK, v.i. [Sax. swincan.]
To labor; to toil; to drudge. [Obs.] – Spenser.
SWINK, v.t.
To overlabor. [Obs.] – Milton.
SWINK'ER, n.
A laborer; a plowman. [Obs.] – Chaucer.
SWIPE, n.
A swape or sweep – which see.
SWIP'PER, a. [Sax. swipan, to move quick.]
Nimble; quick. [Not in use.]
SWISS, n.
- A native of Switzerland or Swisserland.
- The language of Swisserland.
SWITCH, n. [Sw. svege.]
- A small flexible twig or rod. On the medal, Mauritania leads a horse by a thread with one hand, and in the other holds a switch. – Addison.
- On railways, a contrivance for transferring a car from one track to another.
SWITCH, v.i.
To walk with a jerk. [Obsolete or local.]
SWITCH, v.t.
To strike with a small twig or rod; to beat; to lash. – Chapman.
SWITCH'EL, n.
A beverage made of molasses and water.
SWIV-EL, n. [swiv'l; from Sax. swifan, to turn or whirl round; or from the root of whiffle, – which see. In D. weifelen is to palter, to waver, to whiffle.]
- A ring which turns upon a staple; or a strong link of iron used in mooring ships, and which permits the bridles to be turned round; any ring or staple that turns. – Mar. Dict.
- A small cannon or piece of artillery, carrying a shot of half a pound, fixed on a socket on the top of a ship's side, stern or bow, or in her tops, in such a manner as to be turned in any direction. – Mar. Dict.