swingle
swingle definitions
verb
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To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
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To dangle; to wave hanging.
noun
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The swinging part of a flail, especially that which is used on the grain in threshing; the swiple.
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An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch.