swig

Meanings

Verb

  • To drink ; to quaff.
  • To suck.
  • To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.

Noun

Origin

  • Unknown, mid Perhaps connected with Old English swelgan.

Modern English dictionary

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