Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828)


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Swan-upping (Page: 1456)

Swan"-up`ping (?), n. A yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.