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Swinge   Listen
verb
Swinge  v. t.  (past & past part. swinged; pres. part. swingeing)  
1.
To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. "I had swinged him soundly." "And swinges his own vices in his son."
2.
To move as a lash; to lash. (Obs.) "Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail."





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"Swinge" Quotes from Famous Books



... severe than herbs and salves and baths? It would have been surprising indeed had it not. And so we find the following decidedly stringent application prescribed:—"In case a man be lunatic, take a skin of mere-swine (that is, a sea-pig or porpoise), work it into a whip, and swinge the man therewith; soon he ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke
... it just means that Christ by incarnation, life, death, resurrection, ascension, and present work from the throne, has broken the power of evil in its central hold. He has crushed the serpent's head, his heel is firmly planted on it, and, though the reptile may still 'swinge the scaly horror of his folded tail,' it is but the dying flurries of the creature. He was manifested 'that He might destroy the works ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren


Words linked to "Swinge" :   singe, blacken, scorch, sear, char


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