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.

Etymology: ME f. MDu. swinghel (as SWING, -LE(1))

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.