swing-comb. form

1965 Wireless World July 3 (advt.) Swing-away, lift-off mounting (optional).

1949 Archit. Rev. 105 241 A slightly less conventional example is the swing-down metal wash-basin with which the Viking is equipped.

1977 Times 29 Apr. 13/4 There are 156 A class cabins each with two sofa beds, swing-down bunks, lavatory and shower.

1967 K. M. Smith Insect Virol. v. 103 In this gradient a discrete band was obtained after 60 minutes centrifugation in a swing-out (Spinco SW25) head at 24,000 rpm.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3064 Portrait Camera, and lens with swing back.

1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. xxxiii. 269 A fair general focus can..be obtained by using with the camera a vertically-pivoted swing-back.

1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 98 It is an effect of stretching after an artificially long swing back.

1924 Public Opinion 4 July 16/2 The swing-back to biblicism appears as an accomplished fact.

1945 N.Y. Times 12 Aug. iv. 6/2 Legislation will be necessary to tide over those men who are unemployed while the gigantic swing-back to peacetime industry is being accomplished.

1952 C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing viii. 280 Coats were swing-back, flared or tiered [in 1945].

1972 Daily Tel. 1 Mar. 5/1 The firm has charted a remarkable swing-back among its African personnel from rejection to timid acceptance.

1973 Country Life 15 Mar. 723/1 Swing-back jacket in showerproof Terylene/cotton twill.

1935 Pop. Mech. Dec. 925 (heading) ‘Swing Ball’ table top action game of skill.

1955 D. A. Hindman Handbk. Indoor Games & Stunts xii. 188 Swingball bowling... The player takes the ball and carries it any desired distance away from the doorway.

1977 Sci. Amer. Dec. 39/2 They range from simple board games [to]..indoor versions of miniature golf, swingball bowling (the ball is tethered to the top of a doorframe).

1980 Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 July 1316/2 Swingball... Games (other than ordinary playing cards) and playthings incorporating the use of balls. Dunlop Holdings Limited,..London, SW1Y 6PX; a holding company.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 293 These studs are inserted into a swing-bar that can be bolted to the horizontal rails of the framing, in such position as will bring the intermediate wheels into proper pitch with the principals.

1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 280 Swing~bar or beam of a rocket frame, bascule d'un chevalet.

1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 32 The swing beams are the long beams running along the [lock-]gates, by which they are pushed open.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Swing-beam. 1. (Railway Engineering.) A cross-piece suspended from the truck, and sustaining the car-body, so that it may have independent lateral motion. 2. (Carpentry.) A cross-beam supporting an over-head mow in a barn.

1842 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. 156 Semelle d'affût de campagne, swing bed [1852 reads swing-bed] upon which the breech rests.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 107/2 All the caravans and swing-boats, and what not, used to assemble there.

1958 Times 11 Nov. 15/2 He made an uppish defensive shot against medium-paced swing bowler, Strauss.

1953 Times 27 Aug. 3/7 Wind tunnel experiments at this university have shown that spin plays only a secondary part in swing bowling.

1963 A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 87 This was swing bowling of the kind Statham does not often manage.

1791 Estimate Works Thames-Isis Navig. 3 At Duxford Wear, a Swing-Bridge for Towing-Horses, and Fence-Gates.

1898 W. W. Jacobs Grey Parrot in Sea Urchins (1906) 213 The gangway was shipped, and..the Curlew drifted slowly away from the quay and headed for the swing bridge slowly opening in front of her.

1967 Britannica Bk. of Year 1966 804/3 Swing-by, an interplanetary mission in which a space vehicle utilizes the gravitational field of a planet near which it passes for changing course (a swing-by through the gravitational field of Venus on the way to Mars).

1970 Nature 1 Aug. 434/2 The next opportunity to make a similar swing-by flight to Mercury will not occur until 1982.

1796 H. Hunter London & Environs I. 107 Raspberries, which are raised chiefly for the use of the distillers, and conveyed to London in swing carts.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §697 A swing chair, formed out of ten pieces of elder tree.

1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth (1906) 18 She was lying in a swing chair, showing lots of petticoat and ankle.

1935 Times 4 Nov. 7/1 There is a new flat swing-coat in shower-proof Llamavel curl.

1939 Country Life 11 Feb. p. xxxvii/2 (advt.) The three-quarter ‘swing’ coat of dyed baby sealskin obtainable in black, brown, or cafe.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §765 The use of the swing door..is to prevent the door from ever being left open in severe weather.

1863 M. E. Braddon John Marchmont's Legacy I. i. 23 He was gone, and the swing-door slammed in Edward Arundel's face.

1895 P. Hemingway Out of Egypt i. i. 3 As the waiters pushed aside the swing-doors of the buffet.

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 272/1 As the swing forward stops, all weight is taken off the handle of the oar.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 884 The wide angle lens is attached to the swing front ready for work.

1774 Garton Inclos. Act 5 No swing-gates or other gates shall at any time be suffered.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 143 In the construction of the swing-gate, the bars are so long, that too much weight is often thrown upon the hinges.

1878 E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 214 This was something like a ‘race’ for drafting sheep, with a swing gate.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream ix. 91 Mr. Stangrove..has no more idea of a swing-gate than a shearing-machine.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 81 A Dressing Table, and a Swing Glass..£2 10s.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. vii. 198 She threw a glance at her swing-glass.

1960 T. Reese Play Bridge with Reese x. 41 Playing in a team-of-four match against strong opponents, I pick up this swing hand.

1891 Cent. Dict. Swing-handle.

1896 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. Nov. 202 All fruit should be carefully placed in the basket (which is preferable lined or padded, and if with a swing-handle all the better).

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Swing-jack, a jack for replacing cars on the track; the bottom of the standard is a cylindrical segment, and has a toe working in a slot in the base of the jack. A pair are used, and the car being lifted while the standards are vertical, the latter are canted to or swung over, bringing the wheels of the car in line with the rails.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 595 The marker mn is another appendage to the [drill sowing-]machine... It consists of the bar mm, and the marking-rod mn. The latter is swing-jointed on a stud fixed in the ends of the marker~bar mm.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 100 Swing label, the cardboard label hanging from a garment giving name of manufacturer, size, price, etc.

1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady ii. iv To right and left a range of stable doors, with round swing-lights between each.

1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy iii. 20 The herd trailed along behind the leaders..guarded by outriders, known as swing men.

1936 Delineator 129 10/3 There have been many other great swingmen whose names have become tradition.

1957 D. Hague in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 123 Many years ago the best alto player among the swingmen was Johnny Hodges—and to-day he is still tops!

1969 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 6 Aug. a6/1 As the swingman last year the former Lane High All-Stater was used as a replacement for either of the Browns' starting offensive guards.

1972 T. A. Bulman Kamloops Cattlemen xii. 72 Another rider, called the swing man, cut in about the middle of the bunch.

1972 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 2 July 14/2 Now he [drug supplier] is called the connection, the bagman, the swing man, the dealer.

1973 J. Wainwright High-class Kill 157 Tell us about all the dope he pushed... He was taking from his swingman.

1930 Heal & Son Catal.: Matter of Taste in Furnit. (1972) 11 Toilet Table with two drawers and oval swing mirror.

1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 10/4 (advt.) Mahogany swing mirror.

1954 M. B. Picken Singer Sewing Bk. (ed. 2) 246/1 The twin needles provided for the Swing Needle Machine allow you to do beautiful double stitching, using two different-colour threads.

1959 R. P. Giles Needlework i. 6 The more recently introduced swing needle machines..are able to stitch automatically many embroidery stitches.

1961 Observer 28 May 33/1 Swing-needle (zigzag) machines..range from £50 upwards.

1927 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 13/5 Harden was twitted with the violence of his swing-over.

1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) ii. 56 The most striking change in respect of animals was a swing-over from heavy emphasis on gazelle to sheep and goat.

1960 Washington Post 3 Jan. c4/2 They prattle knowingly of splits and gaps,..of flare passes and swing passes.

1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 1 d/1 The hardest thing on a linebacker is the swing pass.

1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 309 The Foot Plough, the Kentish Broad-board Plough, the Creeper, and the Swing Plough.

1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. v. 127 In favour of the swing-plough it is contended, that it is better calculated for fallowing, as the soil can be broken up to a greater depth.

1836 Penny Cycl. V. 307 In Brabant..They use the excellent Flemish swing plough, which they call a foot plough, as it is also called in some parts of England, in contradistinction to a wheel plough. At the same time they also retain the old and heavy turn wrest plough.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. i. 175 The Scotch, or swing-plough, drawn by 2 horses driven by the ploughman.

1903 A. Adams Log Cowboy xx. 312 We swing riders were never out of sight of each other.

1917 D. C. Roper U.S. Post Office xxv. 291 The modern ‘swing’ rooms of many large post offices..have been made ideal club rooms.

1973 ‘E. McBain’ Hail to Chief iv. 56 Patrolman Gomez..was watching television in the swing room on the ground floor.

1940 W. Empson Gathering Storm 71 The swing-round of the Trade Unions to rearmament.

1959 Times 16 Jan. 14/6 (heading) Swing-round in Paris markets.

1951 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 958/2 3-Stunt Swing Set. Non-tilt enameled wood swing seat..wood trapeze bar..metal trapeze rings, wood grips.

1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xii. 230 I can travel across lawns, over porches, through swing sets.

1943 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Mar. 1/5 (heading) Swing-shift workers cross border for 15-cent highballs after California bars close.

1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald-Jrnl. 20 Apr. b5/1 (advt.) Baby sitter..needed for swing shift in Pacolet area.

1912 Daily News 15 Aug. 7 The extent to which the swing-sign habit has caught on is well illustrated by the example of Fleet-street.

1957 Encycl. Brit. I. 225/1 Swing lever stoppered bottles.]

1972 E. Fletcher Bottle Collecting iii. 51 In 1894, swing-stoppered bottles were introduced for sterilized milk.

1683 London Gaz. No. 1861/8 One Bay Gelding..Aged about four years, with a Swi [n] g Tail lately cut off.

1865 R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. Eng. I. 274 The squire..saw the old woman beating her step-daughter..about the head with the skirt of her swing-tail gown.

1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 20 Feb. 12/2 Feature of the cargo planes is a ‘swing tail’, which permits the whole aft section of the fuselage to swing aside.

1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 20 Feb. 12/2 Although there are other aircraft with rear-loading doors, the flight characteristics of the new swing-tail planes would be considerably better.

1963 Economist 21 Sept. 1013/2 The swing-tail version of the Bristol Britannia.

1980 Jane's Encycl. Aviation II. 370/1 Commercial Forty-Fours..were built with swing-tails for straight-in loading as CL-44D4s.

?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding i. xiii. D iv Ouermuch spurringe wil make him swing tailed, and speciallye if he be a Gennet, or Turkye horse, whose tayles be alwayes lose and at libertye.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 466 A galvanised iron cistern..fitted with nickel~plated swing tap.

1962 B.S.I. News July 10/1 Many of the chromium-plated goods on show carried the now familiar swing ticket indicating that the chrome conformed to British Standard.

1972 Times 27 June 11/4 Size and price can both go on swing tickets.

1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 849 Various kinds of swing tools, used by watchmakers in filing and polishing small flat works.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Swing-tool, a holder which swings on horizontal centers, so as to yield to unequal pressure and keep the plate flat against the face of the file.

1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 5/1 A swing-trivet is arranged at each side of the stove, and these can be used over the open fire or with the hot plate down.

1966 Economist 5 Mar. 898/2 He is expected to join Mr Daane as a ‘swing voter’, leaving Mr Martin with only one conservative colleague.

1970 New Yorker 12 Dec. 63/3 Sellers told him that Fong was one of the swing votes.

1978 H. Kemelman Thursday Rabbi walked Out (1979) iii. 21 Blair and Mitchener will vote for it... So that leaves Cunningham. He's the swing vote.

1696 W. Derham Artific. Clock-maker i. 4 The Crown-Wheel in Small pieces, and Swing-Wheel in Royal Pendulums, is that Wheel which drives the Ballance, or Pendulum.

1826 T. Reid Treat. Clock & Watch Making xii. 275 A spring, acting on the pin, brought the nib in a contrary direction, to act on the third wheel teeth, by which it gave motion to the swing-wheel during the time of winding.

1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 826 Balance-wheel or swing-wheel files, the convex side cut, the angular sides safe.

1965 New Scientist 22 Apr. 217/1 One new project in view is the development..of a swing-wing aeroplane.

1976 Farnborough Internat. Exhib. (Official Programme) 8/1 Swing wings..permit Tornado to achieve its best performance in all sections of its flight.

1978 G. Vidal Kalki i. 5 I persuaded Boeing to drop the variable-geometry (or swing-wing) aircraft in favor of the fixed delta-shaped wing and tail plane.