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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SWAN-UPPING

SWAN-UPPING Swan "-up `ping, n.

Defn: 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.

New American Oxford Dictionary

swan-upping

swan-up ping |swɒnˈʌpɪŋ | ▶noun Brit. the annual practice of catching the swans on the River Thames and marking them to indicate their ownership.

Oxford Dictionary

swan-upping

swan-upping |swɒnˈʌpɪŋ | ▶noun the annual practice of catching the swans on the River Thames and marking them to indicate ownership by the Crown or a corporation.