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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