swinge
IPA: swˈɪndʒ
noun
- (archaic) A swinging blow.
- (obsolete) Power; sway; influence.
verb
- (obsolete) To singe.
- (archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
- (archaic) To strike hard.
- (obsolete) To chastise; to beat.
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Examples of "swinge" in Sentences
- Bolingbroke is not active enough; but I hope to swinge him.
- That is the neetive misure of the Oirish bards, an 'is iminiutly adapted to rendher the Homeric swinge.
- "The Secretary promises me to swinge him," he wrote in 1711; "I must make that rogue an example for a warning to others."
- While they were in that posture, in came a huge Sandal, with a pitchfork in his hand, who used to baste, rib-roast, swaddle, and swinge them well-favouredly, as they said, and in truth treated them after a fashion.
- As for the literary pundits, the high priests of the Temple of Letters, it is interesting and helpful occasionally for an acolyte to swinge them a good hard one with an incense-burner, and cut and run, for a change, to something outside the rubrics.
- At its frequent rise and fall you would say that they swinge and belabour me after the manner of a probationer, posed and put to a peremptory trial in the examination of his sufficiency for the discharge of the learned duty of a graduate in some eminent degree in the college of the Sorbonists.
- I was afraid lest my mother should swinge me on account of the apple, so for fear of her I went with my brother outside the city and stayed there till evening closed in upon us; and indeed I am in fear of her; and now by Allah, O my father, say nothing to her of this or it may add to her ailment!
- There was I, and Little John Doit of Staffordshire and black George Barnes and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele a Cotswold man; you had not four such swinge-bucklers in all the inns of court again: and, I may say to you, we knew where the bona-robas were, and had the best of them all at commandment.
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