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- n. A boat-shaped carriage slung from a frame, swinging in which is a favorite amusement with young people at fairs, etc.
Examples
“Rollo talks a Lot The swing-boat man took Fatty across to the yellow and green caravan.”
“Friend of his, " the swing-boat man explained to Old Mum.”
“Hallo, Old Mum, " said the swing-boat man, coming up.”
“I'll take you along, chum, " said the obliging swing-boat man.”
“He was about to ask a few more questions when the swing-boat man came up again, leading a brown-faced gipsy boy by the ear.”
“The swing-boat man shook him like a rat, laughed, and went off again.”
“The body included two cheap Jacks, a shooting-gallery proprietor and the ladies who loaded the guns, a pair of boxing-masters, a steam-roundabout manager, two travelling broom-makers, who called themselves widows, a gingerbread-stall keeper, a swing-boat owner, and a "test-your-strength" man.”
“a steam-roundabout manager, two travelling broom-makers, who called themselves widows, a gingerbread-stall keeper, a swing-boat owner, and a "test-your-strength" man.”
“Sir William’s park presented the usual heart-breaking spectacle of wheel-ruts in the turf, half-unpacked roundabout and swing-boat stuff, and patches of mud where grass should have been.”
“Bright as a parakeet ....) "unsteady as a swing-boat, silly as a drunkard's dream, tragic as a poem by Massfield ....”
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