swaling

Goatman adds that without the ponies, there would be a greater reliance on "swaling"

The Guardian World News Leo Hickman 2010

"I thought it was somebody swaling -- burning the heather."

Uncanny Tales Various

A few minutes made certainty, however, and Ishmael stared at the gathering flicker and wondered whether it were a serious fire or mere swaling.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

Now and then the gleam of a coarse tallow candle swaling gloomily away by some sick bed, threw its murky light across his path.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

This corner was quite sheltered from the wind, the sun almost hot, and the breath of the swaling reached one in the momentary calms.

Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900

And the jerked feather _swaling_ in the _bonnet_. -- p. 15.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

-- Ha! a brilliant bevy of mounted maidens, in riding-habits, and Spanish hats, with "swaling feathers" -- sisters, it is easy to see, and daughters of one whom we either loved, or thought we loved; but now they say she is fat and vulgar, is the devil's own scold, and makes her servants and her husband lead the lives of slaves.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

I've heard her tell scores of times as how she was almost dead when that little yacht came through a swaling sea, that was all heaving and roaring round the wreck, and as how the swell what owned it gave his cabin up to the womenkind, and had his swivel guns and his handsome furniture pitched overboard, that he might be able to carry more passengers, and fed 'em, and gave 'em champagne all around, and treated 'em like a prince, till he ran 'em straight into

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

a rose of flame that gradually lit the horizon and burnt so steadily that he knew no swaling could account for it, and, standing up, he took his bearings and decided that it must be either Farmer Angwin's buildings or ricks ablaze.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse