[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That switches; striking as or as with a switch.
Switching neck (U. S.): a name for the Louisiana heron.
18[?]. Medwin, Suggestions during Hot Weather, i. (in Sotheran’s Catal., April (1907), 58). Armed with a switching, cutting Rod.
1891. Auk, Jan., 77 (Cassell’s Suppl.). Ardea tricolor ruficollis (Gosse). Louisiana Heron. ‘Switching Neck.’
