Swingle

[swingle]

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.

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To dangle; to wave hanging.


v. i.
To dangle; to wave hanging.

v. i.
To swing for pleasure.

v. t.
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. t.
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.


Swingle

Swin"gle , v. i. [Freq. of swing.] 1. To dangle; to wave hanging. [Obs.] Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Swingle

Swin"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swingled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Swingling .] [See Swingel.] 1. 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. 2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.

Swingle

Swin"gle, 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.

To dangle; to wave hanging.

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.

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.

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