Winge vs Swinge - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between winge and swinge

is that winge is to cringe while swinge is (obsolete) to singe.

(archaic) a swinging blow.

To cringe.

(Australia, NZ, UK, slang)

(d)

(obsolete) To singe.

(Spenser)

(archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.

* Milton

Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.

(archaic) To strike hard.

* Shakespeare

I had swinged him soundly.

* C. Dryden

And swinges his own vices in his son.

* Aphra Behn (1640-89) The Feigned Courtesans . This edition: (The plays of) Aphra Behn. Oxford University press 2000. p.233. ISBN 0192834517

Sir Feeble: Tis jelousy, the old worm that bites. [To Sir Cautious] Whom is it that you suspect.

Sir Cautious: Alas I know not whom to suspect, I would I did; but if you discover him, I would swinge him.

(en noun)

(archaic) A swinging blow.

(obsolete) Power; sway; influence.

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