I'd call this one rare. However, it's quite useful in meaning: To leave without paying. Though I gather the Scots use it to mean a brawl. Then again, if you do try to swedge, a brawl could result.
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Re: Swedge
... or vice versa.Then again, if you do try to swedge, a brawl could result.
The ultradubious Urban Dictionary gives this example (note preposition):
that's a stupid shop to let everyone swedge of 'em like that
--though FWIW it got downthumbed 15 to 1
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!
One has to hope that the rod used to swedge, doesn't get wedged in.swedge
Lengthening a piece of tubing with special pliers. Pressure is put down on the tube, in which a rod has be inserted to keep it from collapsing. frequently used in musical instrument repair.
swedge the tube for the key to lengthen it.
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I found SWAGE:One has to hope that the rod used to swedge, doesn't get wedged in.swedge
Lengthening a piece of tubing with special pliers. Pressure is put down on the tube, in which a rod has be inserted to keep it from collapsing. frequently used in musical instrument repair.
swedge the tube for the key to lengthen it.
See also the Swage article on Wikipedia.NOUN: 1. A tool used in bending or shaping cold metal. 2. A stamp or die for marking or shaping metal with a hammer. 3. A swage block.
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: swaged, swag·ing, swag·es
To bend or shape by or as if by using a swage.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, ornamental border, from Old French souage.
Regards//Larry
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
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Re: Swedge
... To leave without paying. ...
Comparing these two gives the feeling of 'stretching a dollar' farther. So far, in fact, that it becomes invisible! to the server.Lengthening a piece of tubing with special pliers. Pressure is put down on the tube, in which a rod has be inserted to keep it from collapsing. frequently used in musical instrument repair.
swedge the tube for the key to lengthen it.
-gailr
contemplates the interesting possibilities in swedging taxes...
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