Definition of Swaling

1. the act of scorching [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swaling

swainmote
swainmotes
swains
swainship
swainsonine
swaip
swaiped
swaiping
swaips
swaknoite
swale
swaled
swales
swalier
swaliest
swaling (current term)
swalings
swallet
swallets
swallie
swallow
swallow-tailed
swallow-tailed coat
swallow-tailed hawk
swallow-tailed kite
swallow dive
swallow hole
swallow one's pride
swallow shrike
swallow up

Literary usage of Swaling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report and Transactions (1905)
"swaling must be done at proper times and under proper conditions, and the Duchy should take care that there is some return for the payment for the licences ..."

2. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art (1884)
""swaling (rhymes with ' Hailing') = burning the heath and furze on a common. A gentleman, a landowner, of about 53, native of and still living at Bovey ..."

3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1844)
"The branching veins, ridging the glossy lean," Or " The thigh broad pressed, with spanning palm upon it. And the jerked feather, swaling in the bonnet," is ..."

4. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1822)
"... the spanning palm upon it, And the jerked feather swaling in the bon. Even whips are carried " with a difference" now-a-days. The bang-up coachee, ..."

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