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swingled

swingled


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swingle  \Swin"gle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Swingled};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Swingling}.]  [See  {Swingel}.] 
  1.  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. 
 
  2.  To  beat  off  the  tops  of  without  pulling  up  the  roots;  -- 
  said  of  weeds.  [Prov.  Eng.]  --Forby.