swedgeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

swedge (countable and uncountable, plural swedges)

1. A tool (originally a bevelled chisel) for making grooves in horseshoes.
2. (Scotland, slang, uncountable) The drug MDMA.

動詞

swedge (third-person singular simple present swedges, present participle swedging, simple past and past participle swedged)

1. To shape metal using a hammer or other force.
   • 1846, editorial staff, NAIL SWEDGING MACHINE in "Scientific American", series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 97

     We are now enabled to present the plan of a machine of the full size for swedging common nails to the shape above mentioned, and which may be operated successfully by small boys of 8 or 10 years, and who could make a fair business at half a cent per lb.

2. (colloquial) To leave (a restaurant etc.) without paying.
3. To fold under or round an object.
   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 14, in Kim:

     He bound them into a neat packet, swedging down the stiff, sticky oilcloth at the corners..

アナグラム

• Wedges, wedges