to swinge

1) To whip; to bastinade; to punish.--Johnson.

And that baggage, Beatrix, how I would swinge her if I had her here.--Dryden, An Evening's Love, Act V.

Go it, old fellow give the goats a swinging every time you come across them.--Maj. Joness Courtship, p. 180.

2) To singe. Provincial in various parts of England.--Halliwell.

The weather has been monstrous hot here, and I don't think I ever did see things jest sprawled out and swinged up so with the sun before.--Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 185.