[f. SWINGE v.1 + -ING1.] The action of SWINGE v.1; scourging, flogging, beating, dealing of blows.

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1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 10. This course of swinging and beating seemeth meete for bondslaves.

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1664.  Butler, Hud., II. II. 56. Whether it be direct infringing An Oath, if I should wave this swinging.

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1844.  Maj. Jones’s Courtship, 180 (Bartlett). Go it, old fellow: give the goats a swinging every time you come across them.

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1869.  Blackmore, Lorna D., ii. To these we paid no heed…, being in the thick of swinging.

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