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A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

The act of scattering or spreading.

ody suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. Boyle.

The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]

To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. I had swinged him soundly. Shak. And swinges his own vices in his son. C. Dryden.

A swashbuckler; a bully; a roiserer. [Obs.] Shak.

Huge; very large. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot. Byron. -- Swinge"ing*ly, adv. Dryden.

The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.

One who swings or whirls.

To swing for pleasure. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A swingletree. De Quincey.

The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.

A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.

from Swingle, v. t. Swingling tow, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.

The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.

The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow.

a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel (Pottery), a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried by a vertical spindle; a potter's wheel.

An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds the spear, toward the middle, above it with the finger and thumb, the…

pinch; to tweak. When a man is past his sense, There's no way to reduce him thence, But twinging him by the ears or nose, Or laying on of heavy blows. Hudibras.

One of the posterior wings of an insect.