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Swingle

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch

n. An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To dangle; to wave hanging.

verb-intransitive. To swing for pleasure.

v. To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.

v. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.

n. A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A wooden instrument used for beating flax and scraping from it the woody parts. Also swing-knife, swingle-staff, swingling-knife or -staff.

n. That part of a flail which falls upon the grain in threshing; a swipple.

n. A kind of spoke or lever, like the hand-spike of a capstan, used in turning the barrel in wire-drawing.

n. One of the radiating arms by which the roller of a plate-press is turned.

To clean, as flax, by beating and scraping with a swingle or swing-knife.

To cut off the tops of without pulling up the roots, as weeds.

To dangle; wave hanging.

To swing for pleasure.

Word Usage

"There was a tow which came out when it was swingled, called swingle tow."

Verb Form

swingled swingles swingling

Variant

swingling knife swingling staff swingling wand

Form

swingled swingling

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

dangle scutch scutcher

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Dingle Pringle bingle commingle dingle