From en.wiktionary.org:
[Swingle]
** English
*** Etymology 1
The noun is from [en], from [en], [ang], equivalent to [en]. Related to
[dum], [dum], [nl], [nl]. [en]. The verb is from [en], from the noun.
Related to [dum], [dum].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] An implement used to separate the fibre s of flax by beating them; a scutch .
2. The swinging part of a flail , especially that which is used on the grain in thresh ing; the swipple .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | date=1984-04-19 | author=Joseph Needham; Francesca Bray | title=Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=9780521250764 | page=357
|text=The pole of the Chinese flail is roughly 90 cm. long, the SWINGLE about
30 cm. in length, joined to the pole by a wooden axle projecting at
right-angles from the top of the SWINGLE and passing through a loop at the top
of the pole[nb...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2004 | author=Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck | title=Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present | publisher=University of Illinois Press | isbn=9780252071751 | page=27
|text=(A flail SWINGLE was a large wooden handle attached to a freeswinging
stick, which was used in threshing grain.)}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2013 | month=10 | author=Michael D. J. Bintley; Michael G. Shapland | title=Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=9780199680795 | page=137
|text=Once cut into the correct size and shape, the handle of the flail, dumb
in bendum 'unspeaking in bonds' (6b), is attached to the SWINGLE or swipple,
the swinging part of the flail, with a cord, rope, or chain tied through the
hole or[nb...]}}
***** Derived terms
[en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To beat or flog , especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1858 | editor=John Harland | title=The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster
|passage=The first operation in dressing flax is to SWINGLE or beat it, in
order to detach it from the harle or skimps.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
*** Etymology 2
From [en].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To dangle ; to wave hanging.
2. [en] To swing for pleasure. [en]
*** Further reading
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]