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SWINGING

Volume 18 · 63 words · 1797 Edition

kind of exercise strongly recommended to persons in convulsion by some physicians, and disapproved of by others. See Medicine, p. 224.

Swing-tree of a waggon, is the bar fastened across the fore-guide, to which the traces of the horses are fastened.

Swing-Wheel, in a royal pendulum, that wheel which drives the pendulum. In a watch or balance clock it is called the crown-wheel.