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Answer for the clue "Hardly a swinger ", 6 letters:
bunter

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bunter may refer to: Geography Bunter sandstone , a type of red sandstone common in large parts of western and central Europe Bunter (geology) , a feature in geology Sport In baseball, a player who performs the action of bunting is called a bunter . People ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bunter \Bun"ter\, n. A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant] Her . . . daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns. --Goldsmith. (Baseball) a batter who bunts[2].

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a batter who bunts

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context baseball English) One who bunt#Verb. 2 A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.

Usage examples of bunter.

Formerly, such a visit would have been attended with great danger to the parties making the attempt, from the number of desperate characters who inhabited the back-slums lying in the rear of Broad-street: where used to be congregated together, the most notorious thieves, beggars, and bunters of the metropolis, amalgamated with the poverty and wretchedness of every country, but more particularly the lower classes of Irish, who still continue to exist in great numbers in the neighbourhood.

Bunter, who had slipped quickly down from the steps, stood, chain in hand, as though ready to put the gyves on a felon when he heard the word.

Bunter Pebble Beds, harder red and brown sandstones with quartzose pebbles, very abundant in some places.

Bunter, judicially, “the vegetables well packed in layers, on a foundation of bacon, not too fat, and the whole well seasoned with salt, pepper and paprika, there are few dishes to beat a casseroled chicken.

Both men reminded her of bunters who had caught the spoor of their prey.