Pa. t. swung, rarely swang; pa. pple. swung. Forms: 1 swingan, (suinga), 2 swingen, (4 suing(e, squynge), 4–5 swynge, 4–6 swinge, swyng, 5– swing. Pa. t. str. 1, 3, 5– swang (1 pl. swungon, 3 pl. swongo(n), 4 suang, squang(e, 4–5 swange, swonge, 4–7 swong, 8– swung; wk. 4 swyngede, 5 swynget, swinget, 6 swynged, 7 swinged. Pa. pple. str. 1 swungen, (1, 4 suungen), 3 iswonge, 4 yswonnge, yswongen, iswungen, suongen, swngen, squongin, 4–5 swongen, swonge, (5 swongyn, -on), 8– swung; wk. 6 swynged, 6–8 swinged. [OE. swingan, pa. t. swang, swungon, pa. pple. ʓeswungen to scourge, chastise, beat up, intr. to move violently or impetuously, related to OFris. swinga (also swenga, swanga) to fling, besprinkle, MLG. swingen str., to fling, hurl, swingle flax, intr. to fling oneself, fly, swengen wk., intr. and refl. to throw oneself in any direction, rotate, wheel round, LG. swingen to swingle, OHG. swingan to hurl, fling, beat, intr. to move rapidly, fly, (MHG. swingen, G. schwingen to brandish, flourish, shake, winnow, swingle, intr. or refl. to swing, oscillate, swing oneself up, etc., bound, soar, rise, whence Sw. svinga, Da. svinge), Goth. afswaggwjan in pass. rendering ἐξαπορηθῆναι to be in doubt or anxiety; f. Teut. swiŋgw-, older sweŋgw-: swaŋgw- (swaŋgwj-), to be or to put in violent (circular or rotatory) motion; whence also the forms recorded s.v. SWANG v., SWING sb.1 and 2, SWING v.2, SWENG, SWENGE, SWINGE, and prob. SWANGE, SWONG.]
† 1. trans. To scourge, whip, flog, beat (a person); also, to strike with a weapon or the hand.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), E 477. Exalaparetur, suungen.
971. Blickl. Hom., 15. Hie hine bindað & swingaþ & spætliað on his onsyne. Ibid., 23. Hie hine swungon, & bundon. Ibid., 243. Swingaþ hine on his muð.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxxvii. 158. And hine man þa swang & mid saglum beot.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 149. [He] ofte for his sunne swingeð him mið smele twige.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 26019. Efter he was wit skurges suungen [Fairf. squongin].
c. 1330. Assump. Virg. (B. M. MS.), 443. With oute gult þei me swongen, And to a piler þei me bounden.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 13054. Ilk oþer wroþ, ilk oþer swong.
a. 1400. Octavian (Sarrazin), 2. Jesu, þat was … for vs hard and sore yswonnge.
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.), 5. How xrist was with scourgis swongyn.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., xxiii. 470. Blo and blody thus am I bett, Swongen with swepys.
† b. To beat (the flesh) from, (the blood) out of.
a. 1303. Cursor M., 9102 (Cott.). Vte of his bak þe blode þai suang.
a. 1400. Leg. Rood (1871), 142. Þe flesch was from þe bones swonge.
† c. Cookery. To beat up, ‘whip’ (milk, eggs, etc.). Obs.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., III. 14. ʓif poc sy on eaʓan nim arsapan & hinde meoluc mæng to somne & swyng.
c. 1390[?]. Form of Cury, in Warner, Antiq. Culin. (1791), 10. Breke ayrenn and do thereto; and swyng it wel togydr.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 11. Swyng eyryn, and do þer to.
a. 1500. Recipes, in Babees Bk. (1868), 53. Recipe brede gratyd, & eggis; & swyng þam to-gydere.
† d. intr. To strike a blow with a sword; to come together with blows; to deliver a blow at.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 3856. Swiftli seþþe with swerdes swonge þei to-gider.
a. 1375. Joseph Arim., 576. Þe white kniht wiþ his swerd swyngede to hem sone.
a. 1400–50. Wars Alex., 957. He swyngis out with a swerd & swappis him to dethe.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 13590. Pirrus swappit out his sword, swange at þe kyng.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IV. 314. Wallace thar with swyth with a suerd out swang.
† 2. trans. To throw with force, fling, hurl.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 7527 (Cott.). His arms fra him did he suing [Fairf. squynge].
c. 1480. Henryson, Mor. Fab., Fox, Wolf & Cadger, xviii. He hint him be the heillis, And with ane swak he swang him on the creillis.
1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XV. cii. (W. de W.). He swange [Bodl. MS. swenged] the adder in to the fire.
† 3. intr. To move or go impetuously; to rush; to fling oneself. Obs.
Beowulf, 2264 (Gr.). Nis hearpan wyn,… ne god hafoc ʓeond sæl swingeð, ne se swifta mearh burhstede beateð.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 7582. Wit þat stan he laid in sling, Sua stalworthli he lete it suing Þat in his frunt þat stan he fest.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 1059. Þat foysoun flode … Swyþe hit swange þurȝ vch a strete.
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1562. Þe lorde … Swez his vncely swyn, þat swyngez bi þe bonkkez.
14[?]. Sir Beues, 497 (Pynson). Al at onys on hym they swonge And gaue hym woundes wyde and longe.
a. 1553. Udall, Royster D., II. iii. (Arb.), 35. Tib. Talk. Well Trupenie neuer but flinging. An. Alyface. And frisking? Trupenie. Well Tibet and Annot, still swingyng and whiskyng?
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 50. Two serpents … Plasht the water sulcking to the shoare moste hastelye swinging.
† b. trans. To carry or drive forcibly. Obs.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 13299. Full swift to the swalgh me swinget the flode.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 33. With steeds he is swinged, downe picht in his hudge wagon emptye.
4. trans. † To draw out (a sword) with a vigorous movement (obs.); to flourish, brandish, wave about; in later use with mixture of sense 7 or 12: to wield (a weapon or implement), or move (a body held or grasped) with an oscillating or rotatory movement.
a. 1400–50. Wars Alex., 806. Alexander … Swythe swyngis out his swerde.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 7275. He … swynget out a sword, swappit at þat other. Ibid., 10390. Þen he swange out a sword swicly with þat.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IX. vii. 161. He … thame stoutly assalit,… And euer his schynand swerd about him swang.
1581. A. Gilby, Test. 12 Patriarchs, 27 b. I tooke hym by the Hornes, and swinged hym aboute, and finally killed hym.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. i. 118. The fiery Tibalt, with his sword prepar’d, Which … He swong about his head.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, III. 393. An emptie helme, That then he swong about his head, and cast among his friends.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 310. Take Bottles, and Swing them.
1646. Crashaw, Sospetto d’Herode, xl. Swinging a huge scythe, stands impartial Death.
1666. Dryden, Ann. Mirab., xcvii. If some one approach to dare his Force, He swings his Tail.
1671. Milton, Samson, 1240. Go baffl’d coward, lest I … swing thee in the Air.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Sallet, Lettice, Cresses, Radish, &c. must … be … swing’d and shaken gently.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xx. He … swung his arms like the sails of a wind-mill.
1860. Tennyson, Sea Dreams, 24. For sideways up he swung his arms.
1873. B. Harte, Fiddletown, etc., 107. Each swung a lasso.
1909. Stacpoole, Pools of Silence, xxx. Adams had swung the man aloft and dashed him against the wall.
† 5. To whirl (a wheel) round. Obs.
a. 1225. Juliana, 58. [He] dude … fore of his cnihtes forte turnen þat hweol … ant het swingen hit swiftliche abuten ant tidliche turnen.
6. intr. To move freely backwards and forwards, as a body suspended from a support above; to oscillate below a point of support, as a pendulum or the like. For spec. use in Hindu asceticism, see (b).
Occas. the intr. sense corresp. to 7 d.
1545. Ascham, Toxoph., I. (Arb.), 47. Moche lyke the pastyme that boyes vse in the churche when their master is awaye, to swinge and totter in a belrope.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys. Mech., xxvi. 202. We thought it not amiss to try if a Pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer in our Receiver.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 96, ¶ 5. His Arms naturally swang at an unreasonable Distance from his Sides.
1782. Cowper, Gilpin, 107. A bottle swinging at each side.
1816. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 133. A great beam, suspended on gudgeons at the middle, and swinging like the beam of a balance.
1839. Fr. A. Kemble, Resid. Georgia (1863), 19. The mocking birds are swinging and singing even now.
1842. Tennyson, Sir Galahad, iii. The shrill bell rings, the censer swings.
1844. A. B. Welby, Poems (1867), 44. Her cottage bonnet filled with flowers, Hung swinging from her arm.
1864. Tennyson, Aylmer’s F., 19. Sir Aylmer Aylmer,… Whose blazing wyvern weathercock’d the spire,… And swang besides on many a windy sign.
a. 1900. Kipling, A Dedication, vi. One stone the more swings to her place in that dread Temple of Thy worth.
1912. H. Belloc, Four Men, 25. His arms dangled rather than swang.
(b) 1773. Ed. Ives, Voy. to India, I. ii. 27. On the 9th of April, annually, at Bengal the natives undergo a very uncommon kind of penance:… In a large plain about a mile from Calcutta, there are erected about thirty Bamboos, at least twenty feet high; on the top of these they contrive to fix a swivel, and another bamboo of thirty feet or more crosses it, at both ends of which hangs a rope. One end of this rope, the people pull down, and the devotee placing himself under it, the Brahmin pinches up a large piece of skin under both the shoulder blades,… and thrusts a strong iron-hook through each…. When this is done, the people haul down the other end of the bamboo, by which means the devotee is immediately lifted up … from the ground, and then run round as fast as their legs will carry them. This throws the devotee out to the full length of the rope, where as he swings, he plays a thousand antic tricks.
1793. Medical Spectator, II. No. 39. 246. All the information that I could get from our Banyan relative to this strange custom was, that they swing for a good conscience.
b. Of a person: To move backwards and forwards through the air upon a suspended rope or a swing (SWING sb.2 11), as a sport; to ride in a swing.
[1545: see 6.]
1662. J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 93. They have also ropes to swing in.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 130. I saw ropes or cords stretched from tree to tree in several gardens, Boys and Girls … swinging upon them.
1714. Gay, Sheph. Week, Monday 104. On two near elms the slacken’d cord I hung, Now high, now low my Blouzelinda swung.
c. Of a (suspended) bell: To give forth a sound by swinging; to sound, ring out.
1632. Milton, Penseroso, 76. Oft … I hear the far off Curfeu sound, Over som wide-water’d shoar, Swinging slow with sullen roar.
1812. Colman, Dr. Grins, Lady of Wreck, II. xii. A sound swung down the glen … From Bunamargy Friary bell.
1874. Green, Short Hist., ii. § 6. 90. The burgesses gathered in town-mote when the bell swung out from St. Paul’s.
d. fig. To waver, vacillate; to change from one condition or position to the opposite (esp. in fig. phrases with pendulum as subj.: see PENDULUM 2).
1833. Chalmers, Power of God, II. x. 106. We swing as it were between two assumptions.
1836. [see PENDULUM 2].
1877. R. Giffen, Stock Exch. Securities, 152. He should endeavour … not to invest when the pendulum has swung upwards.
1890. Retrospect Med., CII. 378. I am by no means sure that the pendulum may not have swung too far in the opposite direction.
e. trans. To mark or indicate by swinging; to swing seconds, to oscillate once in every second.
1736. Derham, in Phil. Trans., XXXIX. 202. The next Experiments I shall mention, I made … by the Help of a good Month-Piece that swings Seconds.
1764. Maskelyne, ibid., LIV. 373. A little clock … having a pendulum swinging seconds.
7. trans. To cause to oscillate, as a body suspended from a support above; to move or sway (something) to and fro in this or a similar manner.
Phr. To swing a cat (i.e., holding it by the tail); in no room to swing a cat in and similar expressions, said of a confined or narrow space.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 295. They hange out the dead body by a chaine ouer the walle, and after they had swynged it a whyle to and fro, they let it fall into the ditche.
1665. Medela Pestil., 57. They had not space enough (according to the vulgar saying) to swing a Cat in.
1705. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 5. When they walk, they swing their Corps like a Pendulum.
1771. Smollett, Humphry Cl., 8 June. I am pent up in frowzy lodgings, where there is not room enough to swing a cat.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xx. (1842) 543. The flasks should be well rinsed, and … swung in the hand to shake out adhering drops.
1844. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., xvi. The colonel … took his seat upon the table, and swung his legs.
1849. Clough, Poems, Natura Naturans, viii. Big bees their burly bodies swung.
1850. Dickens, Dav. Copp., xxxv. Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn’t room to swing a cat there; but, as Mr. Dick just observed to me,… ‘You know, Trotwood, I don’t want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat.’
1906. Raven, Bells, 41. Arrangements for hanging bells in turrets and swinging them.
b. To cause (a person) to oscillate as in a swing; to give (one) a ride in a swing.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 56. By two ioyning ropes that are fastned aboue, they will swing themselues as high as the transome.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 492, ¶ 3. They get on Ropes, as you must have seen the Children, and are swung by their Men Visitants.
1783. Justamond, trans. Raynal’s Hist. Indies, V. 40. Their slaves had no other employment but to swing them in their hammocks.
1838. Lytton, Alice, III. vii. Come to-morrow, and swing Sophy—no nice swinging since you’ve been gone.
c. Of a bell: To send forth a peal of sound.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxi. The hour of twelve o’clock swung its summons over the city from the belfry.
1852. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, III. I. ix. 294. The bells in every church steeple swung forth their peals of gladsomeness.
d. To lift and transport (something suspended), as with a crane; transf. to convey or transport from point to point.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, Stonehenge, Wks. (Bohn), II. 126. Men … swinging a block of granite … with an ordinary derrick.
1862. H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, li. Who could tire,… at the strange dim vista of swinging horses between decks?
18[?]. Jrnl. Mil. Service Inst. U.S., X. 588 (Cent. Dict.). By means of the railroad, troops can be swung across from bay to bay as the exigencies of the war may require.
e. refl. To hoist oneself up or transport oneself from point to point by grasping a support above. Also intr.
1899. Crockett, Black Douglas, i. The young man … swung lightly off his charger. Ibid., ii. The Douglas swung himself into the saddle.
1902. Violet Jacob, Sheep-Stealers, xi. Putting his foot on the axle and swinging himself up.
1907. J. H. Patterson, Man-Eaters of Tsavo, xii. 133. All kinds of monkeys chatter … overhead as they swing themselves from branch to branch.
8. intr. To be suspended from a support above (without necessarily implying oscillation).
a. spec. To be hanged; to suffer death by hanging. slang or colloq.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 122. Diogenes … had a great zele … to see theim euery one swyngyng & tottreyng in halters.
1592. Nashe, P. Penilesse (ed. 2), 10. What pennance can be greater for Pride, than to let it swinge in hys owne halter?
1725. New Cant. Dict., To Swing, to hang.
1728. [De Foe], Street-Robberies, 8. They all lovingly swung together at Execution-Dock.
1841. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, lxii. It is … a choice between his life and death. If you refuse, he swings.
1884. ‘Edna Lyall,’ We Two, xl. I don’t wish any man to swing for me—I have always disapproved of the death-penalty.
b. gen. To be suspended, to hang; transf. to appear as if suspended (= HANG v. 12). Also fig. (swing from, to depend or ‘hinge’ on).
1641. Tatham, Distracted State, V. i. Agath. And now you see the Pinacle from which You must be tumbled down, away with him…. Fellow. If you please to walk that way you may see Oleander swinging for his life.
1781. Cowper, Charity, 615. His Budget, often filled, yet always poor, Might swing at ease behind his study door.
1829. Scott, Anne of G., xxiii. ‘Yonder swings the Flying Stag,’ said Ital, pointing to an immense sign.
1859. Tennyson, Marr. Geraint, 170. A purple scarf at either end whereof There swung an apple of the purest gold.
1867. Augusta Wilson, Vashti, xix. In the west, where a waning moon swung on the edge of the distant misty hills.
1888. G. A. Smith, Isaiah, xiii. (1891), 229. As this one [word] is obscure in its English guise, and the passage really swings from it, we may devote a paragraph to its meaning.
1898. Rider Haggard, Dr. Therne, i. 14. A lantern swung from the roof of the coach.
9. trans. To hang, suspend; rarely, to hang (a person), put to death by hanging (slang or colloq.).
1528. More, Dyaloge, III. xi. (1529), 82 b. In the tother [wallet] he layeth vp all hys owne and swyngeth yt at hys backe.
1811. Regul. & Orders Army, 249. The Men’s Hammocks must be swung regularly by Companies.
1816. ‘Quiz,’ Grand Master, VII. 202. Had he the pow’r he’d change the case, And swing some col’nels in their place.
1848. Lytton, K. Arthur, I. xliii. A slender draw-bridge, swung from brink to brink.
1860. All Year Round, No. 73. 550. The heavy vehicle so ill swung,… as springless as an artillery tumbril.
1911. Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, v. 61. You would be driven to Court in my state-coach. It is swung so high that the streetsters can hardly see its occupant.
b. To strain (the back of a horse): = SWAY v. 5 b.
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, III. 1258. If she [sc. a mare] … has met with an accident, such as having swung her back.
10. intr. To oscillate (without suspension); to move to and fro, or from side to side; to sway; to hover; spec. to sway the body backward and forward in rowing.
1607. Chapman, Bussy d’Ambois, V. I j. Not so the surges of the euxine Sea … Swell being enrag’d … As Fortune swings about the restlesse state Of vertue.
1712. Arbuthnot, John Bull, II. iv. 17. If the Coach swung but the least to one side, she used to shriek so loud, that all the Street concluded she was overturn’d.
1828. Wordsw., Power of Sound, x. While Fauns and Satyrs beat the ground In cadence,—and Silenus swang This way and that, with wild-flowers crowned.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xv. 101. A single hawk swung in the atmosphere above us.
1879. Oxf. & Camb. Undergrad. Jrnl., 13 March, 292/2. Prest is getting more and more used to the bow side, but he still swings short and stiffly.
11. To turn in alternate directions, or in either direction (usually horizontally), around a fixed axis or point of support; spec. Naut. said of a vessel riding at a single anchor or moored by the head, and turning with the wind or tide. Also with to, open, wide, etc.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1780), To Swing, to turn round the anchors, or moorings, at the change of the wind, or tide.
1812. J. Wilson, Isle of Palms, III. 929. While safely she at anchor swings.
1819. Shelley, Cenci, IV. ii. 41. It is the iron gate, Which ye left open, swinging to the wind.
1860. A. Cumming in Merc. Marine Mag., VII. 102. Let them … swing to one anchor.
1863. Reade, Hard Cash, xx. But in the middle of the joyous whirl, Julia’s quick ear on the watch all the time, heard the gate swing to.
1892. Greener, Breech Loader, 215. The shot will … fly in that direction in which the gun was swinging when the charge of shot left the muzzle.
1892. Gunter, Miss Dividends (1893), 33. He swings around suddenly and quickly to see who interrupts him.
b. To go along or round in a curve or with a sweeping motion; to wheel, sweep.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., I. xx. So forth the startled swan would swing.
1853. Kingsley, Hypatia, xxii. A choir of nymphs swung round him hand in hand.
1856. Miss Warner, Hills Shatemuc, xxxv. With wind and headway the sloop gently swang up to her appointed place.
1865. Kingsley, Herew., xv. In marched Hereward and all his men, and swung round through the gateway into the court.
1914. Times, 8 Sept., 9/1. The battle line proceeds due east to Sézanne and Vitry-le-François, and then swings north-east round the plain of Châlons to the fortress of Verdun.
12. trans. To cause to turn in alternate directions, or in either direction, on or as on an axis or pivot; to turn or cause to face in another direction.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat., I. xxii. 114. The boy who wished to be a king that he might have an officer appointed to swing him all day long upon a gate.
1783. Cowper, Epit. Hare, 24. To skip and gambol like a hare And swing his rump around. Ibid. (1784), Ep. Jos. Hill, 21. Swinging the parlour-door upon its hinge.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., x. Ae leaf of the muckle gate has been swung to wi’ yestreen’s wind.
1883. Harper’s Mag., Jan., 284/1. What maddening whirls when he called, ‘Swing partners!’
1887. Field, 19 Feb., 223/2. A good practical exponent of the ‘art of shooting flying’ states … that he never met with a first-rate shot who ‘swings’ his gun—i. e. keeps it moving in the direction of the bird’s flight.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Miner’s Right, vi. I. 139. The base line is altered or ‘swung,’ i. e. freshly marked on another imaginary course.
1892. E. Gosse, Secr. Narcisse, iii. 80. As he was about to turn towards the window, Rosalie swang herself violently back.
b. Naut. To turn (a ship) to all points in succession, in order to ascertain the deviation of her magnetic compass.
1859. in Merc. Marine Mag. (1860), VII. 49. The necessity of having all iron steamships … swung, in order to ascertain the deviation of their compasses.
1877. Spry, Cruise H.M.S. Challenger, x. (1878), 176. Some hours were spent swinging for magnetical purposes.
c. To drive or cause to move in a curve; also, to make or execute by moving in a curve (in phr. to swing a cast, in hunting: see CAST sb. 41).
1854. R. S. Surtees, Handley Cr., li. The hounds dash towards the fence beyond, and swing their cast without a whimper.
1889. Gunter, That Frenchman, v. 46. He swings his team into the Avenue de l’Impératrice.
1897. Outing (U.S.), XXX. 127/1. The dogs have changed direction by the left flank…. We swing them, make a short cut through a bit of brush.
13. intr. To go along with undulating or swaying movement, or in a vigorous manner; to walk with swinging step. (See also SWINGING ppl. a. 3.)
1854. R. S. Surtees, Handley Cr., lxii. Pulling up at the door of the Turtle Doves Hotel, he threw himself carelessly off the half cover-back … and … swung into the hall with a noisy flourish.
1884. W. Black, in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 30/2. The coach swings along pleasantly.
1894. J. A. Steuart, In Day of Battle, xviii. The camels, swinging at a steady trot.
14. trans. fig. To direct or control the movement or action of; to sway; to wield. U.S.
1889. Voice (N.Y.), 2 May. The rum wing purposes swinging the party. The temperance innocents will have to submit or step out.
1890. ‘Mark Twain,’ in Pall Mall G., 10 Sept., 3/2. His great charm to me is the way he swings nervous English!
1908. U. Sinclair, Money-Changers, ii. 35. He can swing the market so as to break a man.
15. a. To fix (the work) on the center or centers in a lathe. b. Of a lathe: To have a ‘swing’ or capacity of (so much): see SWING sb.2 8 d.
1884. F. J. Britten, Watch & Clockm., 201. The work is ‘swung’ or arranged so as to yield an unequal pressure in polishing.
1888. Hasluck, Model Engin. Handybk. (1900), 22. Three inch centres—that is, a lathe which swings six inches.
