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swing v EDD ~ 1 (5) e ~ swong 1r; J E WALSH Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1847), p. 82: swing-swong ['hangman's rope'].
   Comb, cpd swing-bunk: section of a two-piece sled; SWINGING BUNK.
   T 96/7-641 Wagon sleds some called 'em, an' bunks on 'em, see, swing-bunk. Put on your wood in your forrard bunk, then you [swing] how you like.
   swing-line: STRAY-LINE (M 69-23).
   P 127-76 The swing-line is one of the ropes attaching the four corner-mooring buoys to the surface corners of a cod-trap.
   swing net: fishing net fastened to the shore at one end only.
   [1777] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 240 They still caught some poolers there, under the leap, in a swing net.
   swing-swong: board suspended from a tree by a rope, used as a swing (P 148-61).
   P 108-74 He rigged up a swing-swong out in the yard. 1977 Lore and Language ii (6), p. 23 We used to get, sometimes now, after we quit school, or even in the summer time, as 'twas a wet day. You'd get in one of the barns, you know, and perhaps you'd have hide'n'seek, or you'd have swing-swong, or ... something like that.

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