different between aswing vs sawing

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????

Verb

sawing

1. present participle of saw

Noun

sawing (plural sawings)

1. The act by which something is sawn.
   • 1966, Finnish Paper and Timber (volumes 17-20, page 168)

     As said, these investigations generally do not pay attention to saw kerf width and green size of sawn timber. These studies have mainly been made by practical test sawings and subsequently checked by geometric calculations.

2. (usually in the plural) A shaving or fragment of sawn material.
   • 1892, The Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry (volume 6, page 388)

     We find that from a sample of sawings of the usual size a button or small bar fairly representing the sample can be cast from about 2,000 grains.

Anagrams

• aswing, saw gin, wigans

Tagalog

Noun

sawíng

1. small, native, straw hat with a wide brim