Swing (Captain)
. The name assumed by certain persons who sent threatening letters to those who used threshing machines: (1830–1833.) The tenor of these letters was as follows:—“Sir, if you do not lay by your threshing machine, you will hear from Swing.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.