swape dial.
(sweɪp)
Also 5 swaype, 6 swaipe, 7 swap (?).
[orig. f. ON. sveip-, denoting sweeping or circle-wise motion, repr. by sveipa to sweep, wrap, swaddle, swoop (see swope v.), sveipr fold of garment, in comb. öldusveipr ‘wave-sweeper’, oar. In later usage influenced by, or varying locally with, sweep n.]
I. † 1. Applied to various contrivances of the form of a lever: see quots. Obs.
| 1492–3 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 186 The swaype of þe cherch dore. 1666 in Archæol. æliana XVII. 133 For swapes for y⊇ bells 1s. 1793 Smeaton Edystone L. §333 note, A Swape (a north country term for a Lever, when fixed upon a centre, and acted upon by the hand). |
2. A large oar, esp. one used for steering a barge: = sweep n. 28.
| 1592 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) 252 Half a kurvell lighter, with hir furnytter, that is, j ore and a swaipe [etc.]. 1789 Brand Hist. Newcastle II. 261 note, [The keelmen] call the great oar, used as a kind of rudder at the stern of this vessel, the swape. 1864 Smiles G. & R. Stephenson ii. i. (1868) 67 The vessel being guided by the aid of the ‘swape,’ or great oar. |
3. A long pole supported on a fulcrum and carrying a bucket for raising water; also, a pump-handle: = sweep n. 24. Also in comb., as swape-well (for other combs. see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
| 1773 Phil. Trans. LXIII. 179 A pump..whose handle (or swape, as it is called hereabout [sc. Ripley, Yorks.]) is all of iron, very thick and long. 1890 N. & Q. 7th Ser. X. 240/1 Dwellers in the Eastern Counties may be credited with knowing what a swape-well is... A swape-well is a well from which the water is raised by a loaded lever. 1908 [Miss Fowler] Betw. Trent & Ancholme 369, I remember the two Roxby ‘Swape-wells’..the woman pulling down the swape by the chain. |
4. A sconce for a light.
| 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. |
5. (See quot.)
| 1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., Swape, an implement for shaping the edge of a boring-bit. |
II. † 6. The crop of hay taken up from a meadow: = sweep n. 18.
| 1613 Markham Eng. Husbandman ii. ii. vii. (1635) 85 The swap, and first crop is all the maine profit you can challenge your owne. 1622 tr. Indenture an. 1456 in Gentl. Mag. May (1863) 629 It is agreed the Prior of malton and Co'uent..shall haue swape of Certen medowes. |