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Swingle   Listen
verb
Swingle  v. t.  (past & past part. swingled; pres. part. swingling)  
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.)





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"Swingle" Quotes from Famous Books



... swang, swingle, swuff, Flicker, flacker, fling, fluff! Thus we go, To and fro; Here and there, Everywhere, Born and bred; Never ...
— Cross Purposes and The Shadows • George MacDonald


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