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Swig   /swɪg/   Listen
noun
Swig  n.  
1.
A long draught. (Colloq.)
2.
(Naut.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
3.
A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Swig  v. t.  
1.
To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider. (Colloq.)
2.
To suck. (Obs. or Archaic) "The lambkins swig the teat."


Swig  v. t.  
1.
To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
(Naut.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.





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"Swig" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mister Age begins a-stealin' Thoo yo' back an' knees, W'en yo' bones an' jints lose der limber feelin', An' am stiff'nin' by degrees; Now der's jes one way to feel young and spry, W'en you heah dem banjos soun' Git a great big swig o' de ole corn juice, An' w'en ...
— Fifty years & Other Poems • James Weldon Johnson
... observed the rancher. "First I ever see that didn't choke on a swig of that. But you youngsters has the advantage of a sound lining for ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... were two eminent gastronomes—call them Messrs. Guttle and Swig—who so acridly hated each other that nothing but a good dinner could bring them under the same roof. (They had had a quarrel, I think, about the merit of a certain Amontillado—which, by the way, one insisted, despite Edgar Allan Poe, who certainly knew too much of whiskey to ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce
... glass an gate a gooid swig; an' if yo could ha' seen his face yo'd niver ha' done ony moor gooid. If it had been stricknine he couldn't ha' pooled a faaler mug. "What's th' matter," shoo ...
— Yorksher Puddin' - A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the - Pen of John Hartley • John Hartley
... I have taken a drink. There is no more alcohol in my system than there is in a glass of spring water. The thought of putting alcohol into my system is as absent from my mind as is the thought of putting benzine into it, or gasoline, or taking a swig of shoe-polish. It never occurs to me. The whole thing is out of my psychology. My palate has forgotten how it tastes. My stomach has forgotten how it feels. My head has forgotten how it exhilarates. The next-morning fur has forsaken my tongue. ...
— The Old Game - A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon • Samuel G. Blythe


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