swinge

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

swinge, v. & n. 

 See Singe.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

swinge, v. t. [OE. swengen, AS. swengan to shake, causative of swingan. See Swing.].

•  To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.  [1913 Webster]

  "I had swinged him soundly."  [1913 Webster]

  "And swinges his own vices in his son."  [1913 Webster]
•  To move as a lash; to lash.  [1913 Webster]

  "Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail."  [1913 Webster]

swinge, n. 

•  The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.  Waller.  [1913 Webster]
•  Power; sway; influence.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

swinge, v.tr. (swingeing) archaic strike hard; beat.

Etymology

alt. f. ME swenge f. OE swengan shake, shatter, f. Gmc

ROGET THESAURUS

swinge

Punishment

VB punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.