aswing

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English

Etymology

From a- +‎ swing.

Pronunciation

Adverb

aswing (not comparable)

  1. In a state of swinging.
    • 1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden”, in Poems, Longer and Shorter‎, 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, 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:
      The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.
    • 1945, Maurice Walsh, chapter 12, in Nine Strings to Your Bow‎, 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, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8:
      Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.

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