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