SWINGLE


Meaning of SWINGLE in English

n. & v.

n. 1 a wooden instrument for beating flax and removing the woody parts from it. 2 the swinging part of a flail.

v.tr. clean (flax) with a swingle.

[ ME f. MDu. swinghel (as SWING, -LE(1)) ]

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