Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Obsolete preterit of swing.
  • noun A piece of low land or greensward liable to be covered with water; also, a swamp or bog.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • imp. of swing.
  • noun Prov. Eng. A swamp.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A swamp.
  • verb Simple past of swing. Now largely replaced by swung.

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  • A fresh piece of green swarth, lying in a bottom, among arable or barren land. --A Provincial Glossary1787.

    May 5, 2011

  • Swing, swang, swung.

    May 5, 2011