What is "swingboat"

Usage examples of "swingboat".

And there, over there in the corner, where she had always been, until her desk became empty, Ann Green, the little girl with the yellow hair, who had died in that final summer at the primary, when the swingboat in the memorial park hit her in the throat.

Up and back, she caught the swingboat, pushed it forward, up and back.

The little girl caught at the polished metal as the swingboat swung towards her once again.

She is neither a traveling menagerie, a swingboat, nor a merry-go-round.

The lanterns strung along the huge redwoods that bordered the lawns enclosed marquees, an orchestra, swingboats, mountainous buffets.

And how, for heaven’s sake, did young men nowadays put their girls in an itching and asking when there were no swingboats to stand up in and bunch their muscles while they heaved on ropes like blue and scarlet catkins until the girls screamed for them to stop but not really wanting them to because it was so exciting to see Saint Laurence’s tower keep turning upside down and to know that the lads on the coconut shies were looking up their flying skirts?