swingeing vbl n Comb swingeing stick: slender stick used as a kind of spit to hold a plucked seabird while singeing its down preparatory to cooking.
P 127-75 When you swinge a bird, you take a swingein' stick, push it through the mouth down into the stomach and hold it over a wood fire. [1976 GUY 60 We ate turrs (impaled on a sharpened broomstick and held over the damper hole to singe off the fuzz).]
