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Definition of Swingle

Swingle
Swingle Swin"gle, v. i. [Freq. of swing.] 1. To dangle; to wave hanging. [Obs.] --Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Swingle
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.
Swingle
Swingle Swin"gle, 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.

Meaning of Swingle from wikipedia

- The Swingles are a vocal group formed in 1974 in England by Ward Swingle. The group replaced Swingle's earlier "Swingle Singers", formed in 1962 in Paris...
- Look up Swingle or swingle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swingle may refer to: Alice Haskins Swingle, an American government botanist Lyman Alexander...
- Paul Christopher Swingle (born December 21, 1966), is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who pla**** in 1993 with the California Angels. He batted...
- Historically they were viewed as falling within the genus Citrus, but the Swingle system of citrus taxonomy elevated them to their own genus, Fortunella...
- Rich Swingle is an American film actor, screenwriter and stage actor. He also is a Freedom Finder for Graceworks Inc. and teaches at the Rocky Mountain...
- Ward Lamar Swingle (September 21, 1927 – January 19, 2015) was an American vocalist and jazz musician who founded The Swingle Singers in France in 1962...
- Walter Tennyson Swingle (January 8, 1871 – January 19, 1952) was an American agricultural botanist who contributed greatly to the classification and taxonomy...
- The Paris-based Swingle Singers recorded regularly for Philips in the 1960s and early 1970s and the successor London-based group continued to record,...
- A swingletree (British Isles) or singletree (North America) is a wooden or metal bar used to balance the pull of a draught horse or other draught animal...
- Alice Crane Haskins Swingle (1880-1971) was an American government botanist. With her husband, botanist Deane Bret Swingle (1879–1944), she co-aut****d...