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Definition: Swingled
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.
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2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; --
said of weeds. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby.
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