different between aswing vs ashing

English

Etymology

a- +? swing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Adverb

aswing (not comparable)

1. In a state of swinging.
   • 1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden” in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, p. 177,^[1]

     And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms

     Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,

   • 1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170,^[2]

     […] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,

   • 1921, Mary Grant Bruce, Back to Billabong, Chapter 8,^[3]

     The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.

   • 1945, Maurice Walsh, Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie, Chapter 12,^[4]

     […] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing.

   • 1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Debtford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8,^[5]

     Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.

Anagrams

• saw gin, sawing, wigans

English

Etymology

ash +? -ing

Noun

ashing (plural ashings)

1. (analytical chemistry) An analytic procedure in which a sample is heated in a furnace to leave a residue of ash, either to determine the gross mineral content, or as a preparation for further analysis

Verb

ashing

1. present participle of ash

Anagrams

• Ghanis, Hagins, Hsiang, ghanis, hangis