At 10:25 am -0500 5/10/06, William R. Monroe (off list) wrote: >>From The Century Dictionary, New York, 1914. > >Swedge: (swej), v. t. Same as Swage (2). I stand corrected! All searches for the variant in online disctionaries failed. On receiving William's email I dusted off the magnifying glass I need to read my compact version of the Oxford Dictionary and discover among the quotations using "swedge" one from no lesser writer than Rudyard Kipling. Apologies therefore to those swedgers whose word I doubted. JD
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