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Meaning of 'swingle' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Swingle [ 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.
2 . Swingle [ v. i.]
- To dangle; to wave hanging.
- To swing for pleasure.
3 . Swingle [ 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.
- To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.

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