Meaning of SWINGLE in English

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Meaning of SWINGLE in English

• To dangle; to wave hanging.
• To swing for pleasure.
• 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.
• To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
• 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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