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Celebrating Marriage, Ancestors and Spirits, With Skips, Swivels and Twists “Don’t be all stiff” was one of many instructions that Chuck Davis issued to the audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday.

From New York Times • May 27, 2012

Power Swivels, incidentally, are smaller than standard swivels of the same strength rating.

From Time Magazine Archive

Swivels were the smallest kind of ordnance, firing one-, two-, or three-pound balls at short or medium ranges.

From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry

This day we mounted 6 Swivels at the Fort, which was now nearly finished.

From Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by Cook, James

Swivels were mounted in boats, ammunition and provisions stored abundantly, flags hoisted and oars dipped.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice