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- Swingle - v. i. - To dangle; to wave hanging.
- Swingle - v. i. - To swing for pleasure.
- 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.
- Swingle - v. t. - To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
- 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.
- Swinglebar - n. - A swingletree.
- Swingled - imp. & p. p. - of Swingle
- Swingletail - n. - The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.
- Swingletree - v. i. - A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.