Swipe

swipes

Purser's swipes ; small beer : so termed on board the king's ships, where it is furnished by the purser.

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Swipe (?), n. [Cf. Sweep, Swiple.]

1.

A swape or sweep. See Sweep.

2.

A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.

Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over either of the long fields. R. A. Proctor.

3. pl.

Poor, weak beer; small beer.

Craig.

© Webster 1913.

Swipe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swiped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Swiping.]

1.

To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.

Loose balls may be swiped almost ad libitum. R. A. Proctor.

2.

To pluck; to snatch; to steal.

© Webster 1913.