Definition of swingle
English to English noun - 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.
source: Webster 1913 verb - To dangle; to wave hanging.
source: Webster 1913 - 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.
source: Webster 1913
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swingle, single, shingle, swingel, singly, singil, semiangle, sniggle, swimmingly, singhal, suingly, shingly, snuggle, swimming hole, sumingil, sexangle, sinkhole, singular, sangla, snugly
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