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Definition of swingle in English: swinglenoun ˈswɪŋɡ(ə)lˈswɪŋɡ(ə)l 1A wooden tool for beating flax and removing the woody parts from it. 打麻器 Example sentencesExamples - When the flax is sufficiently watered it is taken out of the pond and beaten by an implement called a swingle.
2The swinging part of a flail. （连枷上的）打禾棍 Example sentencesExamples - A flail is a simple device made up from two pieces of wood a handle or staff about five feet long and a swingle that is about two feet long.
- The swingle, half as long as the handle, strikes the grain.
- The handle of the flail was raised until the swingle was shoulder high and then brought down firmly.
verbˈswɪŋɡ(ə)lˈswɪŋɡ(ə)l [with object]Beat (flax) with a swingle. 用打麻器打（麻） I found a group of bare-armed women under the trees swingling flax Example sentencesExamples - These were then separately swingled, spun and woven.
- Flax was raised, and after grandfather had broken, swingled and hatchelled it, grandmother spun it into thread, which sold for $1.50 per pound.
- When it ripened it had to be pulled, cured, seeded, swingled, spun and woven, all by hand, before it was ready to be made into wearing apparel.
- After the hemp has been removed from the field it is in a state to be broken and swingled.
- After this comes the scutching, or swingling, which is done by chopping with dull knives on a block of wood to take out the small pieces of bark which may still be sticking to the fiber.
- Perhaps he imagines that the flax is first bundled and then beaten (swingled), though that would go against the flailing process which is normally done on a threshing floor.
OriginMiddle English: from Middle Dutch swinghel, from the base of the verb swing. Rhymescommingle, cringle, dingle, Fingal, intermingle, jingle, mingle, shingle, single, tingle Definition of swingle in US English: swinglenounˈswɪŋɡ(ə)lˈswiNGɡ(ə)l 1A wooden tool for beating flax and removing the woody parts from it. 打麻器 Example sentencesExamples - When the flax is sufficiently watered it is taken out of the pond and beaten by an implement called a swingle.
2The swinging part of a flail. （连枷上的）打禾棍 Example sentencesExamples - The handle of the flail was raised until the swingle was shoulder high and then brought down firmly.
- The swingle, half as long as the handle, strikes the grain.
- A flail is a simple device made up from two pieces of wood a handle or staff about five feet long and a swingle that is about two feet long.
verbˈswɪŋɡ(ə)lˈswiNGɡ(ə)l [with object]Beat (flax) with a swingle. 用打麻器打（麻） I found a group of bare-armed women under the trees swingling flax Example sentencesExamples - After this comes the scutching, or swingling, which is done by chopping with dull knives on a block of wood to take out the small pieces of bark which may still be sticking to the fiber.
- After the hemp has been removed from the field it is in a state to be broken and swingled.
- Flax was raised, and after grandfather had broken, swingled and hatchelled it, grandmother spun it into thread, which sold for $1.50 per pound.
- When it ripened it had to be pulled, cured, seeded, swingled, spun and woven, all by hand, before it was ready to be made into wearing apparel.
- Perhaps he imagines that the flax is first bundled and then beaten (swingled), though that would go against the flailing process which is normally done on a threshing floor.
- These were then separately swingled, spun and woven.
OriginMiddle English: from Middle Dutch swinghel, from the base of the verb swing. |