aswing

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ swing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈswɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Adverb

aswing (not comparable)

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

     And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms
     Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,

   • 1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods‎^[2], 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, chapter 8, in Back to Billabong‎^[3]:

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

   • 1945, Maurice Walsh, chapter 12, in Nine Strings to Your Bow‎^[4], Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie:

     […] 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^[5], New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8:

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

Anagrams

• saw gin, sawing, wigans