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Swage vs Swag - What's the difference?

swage | swag |

As nouns the difference between swage and swag

is that swage is a tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item while swag is a loop of draped fabric.

As verbs the difference between swage and swag

is that swage is to bend or shape through use of a swage while swag is to sway; to cause to sway.

swage

English

(swaging)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) souage.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item.
  • * 2003 , Gene Logsdon, The Pond Lovers , University of Georgia Press (2003), ISBN 0820324698, page 45:
  • "I made a swage and hammered out the test bars to the required .615 inch plus or minus .003, the thickness of a sheet of paper.
  • * 2005 , Mike McCarthy, Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship , Texas A&M University Press (2005), ISBN 9781585444519, page 87:
  • If he were making round or square-sectioned nails, the blacksmith also kept a "swage'" near the anvil. If different sizes, shapes, and heads were required, the nailor had a a number of '''swages''' or a number of holes in the one ' swage .
  • * 2008 , Wilbur Cross, Gullah Culture in America , Praeger (2008), ISBN 9780275994501, page 73:
  • The blacksmith let me help out, hold the horse while he was putting the shoe on, turn the hand forge, clean up the shop. And after awhile he taught me names of everything. He'd say, 'Boy, hand me the three-inch swage ,' and I had to know just what he wanted. I learned that way."
    Usage notes
    A swage may be variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, but typically involves working with cold metal by forcing it into a (die).

    Verb

  • To bend or shape through use of a swage.
  • Etymology 2

    From assuage by aphesis.

    Verb

  • Anagrams

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    swag

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably from (etyl)

    Verb

    (swagg)
  • (intransitive, and, transitive) To sway; to cause to sway.
  • To droop; to sag.
  • * Palsgrave
  • I swag' as a fat person's belly ' swaggeth as he goeth.
  • To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 29, author=Cathy Horyn, title=In Paris, a Nod to Old Masters, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loop of draped fabric.
  • * 2005 , , Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:
  • He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.
  • A low point or depression in land; especially , a place where water collects.
  • * 1902', D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", ''The American Practitioner and News'', ' 34 : 182.
  • Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag' the water from the well in question would become muddy After the water in the ' swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    (swagger).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
  • * 2009 , Mark Anthony Archer, Exile , page 119
  • Now this dude got swag , and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!”

    Etymology 3

    From British thieves? slang.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) The booty of a burglar or thief; a boodle.
  • * 1838 , :
  • “It?s all arranged about bringing off the swag , is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’}}
  • * 1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, “They Can Get It For You BETTER Than Wholesale”, New York Magazine , page 38
  • He was on his way to call on other dealers to check out their swag and to see if he could trade away some of his leftover odds and ends.
  • (uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions.
  • * 2011 , Mark Henry, Battle of the Network Zombies
  • “Make sure to take some swag on your way out!” I called.
    He stooped a bit in mid-trot and snatched a small gold bag out of the basket at the door. The contents were mostly shit, a few drink tickets to the Well of Souls, VIP status at Convent, that sort of thing.
  • (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
  • (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable in to an integral backpack.
  • (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
  • * 2010 August 31, " Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener]", [[w:The New Zealand Herald, The New Zealand Herald] :
  • New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women?s hockey World Cup match.
    Derived terms
    * swaggie * swagman

    Verb

  • (Australia) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
  • * 1880 , James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia , page 259,
  • He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.
  • * 1976 , Pembroke Arts Club, The Anglo-Welsh Review , page 158,
  • That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation.
  • * 2006 , , Issue 23, page 3,
  • The plot is straightforward. A swagman is settling down by a billabong after a hard day?s swagging .
  • * 2011 , Penelope Debelle, Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC , page 21,
  • Over the Christmas of 1939, just three months after Britain and Australia had declared war on Germany, they went swagging together for a week and slept out under the stars in the Adelaide Hills, talking, walking and reading.
    Derived terms
    * swag it

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • ; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
  • I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.

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