Swinge

both forms occur in the Pastoral), an; f. A stripe, stroke. I. literal, a stroke with a scourge or rod :-- Scp. Petrus hine mid grimmum swingum swong and þreáde (flagellis artioribus afficiens) . . . Cwæþ him eác tó: ' Ic bende and swingan (vincula, verbera) ðrowade' . . . Ðá wæs Laurentius mid ðæs Apostoles swingum (flagellis) swíþe gebylded; cwom and eáwde mid hú miclum swingum (verberibus) hé ðreád wæs, Bd. 2, 6; S. 508, 12-24. Bedrífe hine ( wíteþeów, sancti verbera experti, insuper et vincula et carceres, Past. 30; Swt. 205, 12. II. metaphorical, chastisement, afflicting stroke :-- Geféged tó ðǽm gefógstánum on ðære Godes ceastre bútan ðæm hiéwete ǽlcre suingean (swingan, Cote. MSS. ) sine disciplinae percussione, Past. 36; Swt. 253, 20. Sunu mín ne ágiémeleása ðú Godes suingan (swingan, Cote. MSS.) fili mi, noli negligere disciplinam Domini, Swt. 253, 2. Ic neósiu in swingum (verberibus) synne heara, Ps. Surt. 88, 33. [With a swinge of his sworde (he) swappit hym in the face, Destr. Tr. 1271. O. H. Ger. swinga flagellum: Ger. schwinge a winnow, fan.] and next word. swinge