aswing
adv/əˈswɪŋ/
Etymology From a- + swing.
1
In a state of swinging.
- And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden”, in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, page 177:
- […] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170:
3 more examples
- The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.1921, Mary Grant Bruce, chapter 8, in Back to Billabong:
- […] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing.1945, Maurice Walsh, chapter 12, in Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie:
- Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8: