See swingle on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1623, Gervase Markham, Country Contentments, or The approued Booke called the English Hous-wife, page 168:",
"text": "Now after you have swingled your Hempe and Flaxe ouer once, you shall take and shake up the refuse stuffe, which you beate from the same seuerally, and not only it, but the tops and knots, and halfe brak't buns which fall from the brake also, and drying them againe cause them to bee very well thresht with flayles, and then mixing them with th refuse which fell from the swingle tree, dresse them all well with threshing and shaking, till the buns be cleane driuen out of them;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1764, Duhamel du Monceau, The Elements of Agriculture - Volume 2, page 174:",
"text": "The instruments necessary to swingle flax are, a tressel, and a swingle.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1858, John Harland, editor, The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster:",
"text": "The first operation in dressing flax is to swingle or beat it, in order to detach it from the harle or skimps.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1867, Horatius Flaccus, The Vision of Judgment: Or The South Church:",
"text": "Just what he said, they neither of them knew. For hearing is a sense made blunt by fright; But then their ears were flushed, and burned and tingled, As if they'd been by some sharp weapon swingled.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1976, Andriĭ Vasylʹovych Holovko, The Weeds: A Novel, page 28:",
"text": "She returned to her swingling and added reflectively : \" That's what made me leave in the first place, to keep out of harm's way. […]\".",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Helen D. Irvin, Women in Kentucky:",
"text": "Later she “spread, rotted, broke, swingled, and hacked” the weeds, twisting together several strands of fiber, and she used these strands to weave a frail fabric on a home-built loom.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch."
],
"links": [
[
"beat",
"beat"
],
[
"flog",
"flog"
],
[
"scutch",
"scutch"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈswɪŋ(ɡ)əl/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈswɪnd͡ʒəl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋəl"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋɡəl"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪndʒəl"
}
],
"word": "swingle"
}
{
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"English 2-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -le",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɪŋəl",
"Rhymes:English/ɪŋəl/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ɪŋɡəl",
"Rhymes:English/ɪŋɡəl/2 syllables",
"en:Flax",
"en:Tools"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "swing",
"3": "le",
"pos2": "frequentative suffix"
},
"expansion": "swing + -le (frequentative suffix)",
"name": "suf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From swing + -le (frequentative suffix).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "swingles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "swingling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "swingled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swingled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "swingle (third-person singular simple present swingles, present participle swingling, simple past and past participle swingled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To dangle; to wave hanging."
],
"links": [
[
"dangle",
"dangle"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To swing for pleasure."
],
"links": [
[
"swing",
"swing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, UK, dialect) To swing for pleasure."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈswɪŋ(ɡ)əl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋəl"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋɡəl"
}
],
"word": "swingle"
}
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