Swape vs Swage - What's the difference?
swape | swage |
A bar or pole used as a lever, swivel handle e.g. on the end of a shaft.
A steering oar use by Tyne keelmen.
A kind of mechanical scoop for water.
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,
* 2005 , Mike McCarthy, Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship , Texas A&M University Press (2005), ISBN 9781585444519,
* 2008 , Wilbur Cross, Gullah Culture in America , Praeger (2008), ISBN 9780275994501,
To bend or shape through use of a swage.
As nouns the difference between swape and swage
is that swape is a bar or pole used as a lever, swivel handle eg on the end of a shaft while swage is a tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item.As a verb swage is
to bend or shape through use of a swage or swage can be .swape
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* lever * shadoofswage
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(swaging)Etymology 1
From (etyl) souage.Noun
(en noun)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.
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 .
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."