aswing

a- +‎ swing

• IPA^(key): /əˈswɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

aswing (not comparable)

1. In a state of swinging.
   • 1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden” in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, p. 177,

     And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms

     Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,

   • 1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170,

     […] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,

   • 1921, Mary Grant Bruce, Back to Billabong, Chapter 8,

     The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.

   • 1945, Maurice Walsh, Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie, Chapter 12,

     […] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing.

   • 1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8,

     Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.

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