"swiple" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swiples",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "swiple (plural swiples)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "swipple"
        }
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          "text": "1851, \"Flail\", entry in Cuthbert William Johnson, The Farmer's and Planter's Encyclopaedia of Rural Affairs, Lippincott, page 482,\nIt anciently was truly a whip, and sometimes had two or more lashes: the modern flail consists of the handle or handstaff, which the labourer holds in his hand, and uses as a lever, to raise up and bring down the swiple, or part which strikes the corn, and beats out the chaff and grain from the straw."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Donald Macdonald, Lewis: A history of the island, page 76:",
          "text": "The flail consisted of two parts, a six foot wooden staff attached by a sheepskin thong to a four foot buailtean, swiple of wood, thick tarry cable, or dried tangle.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2011, Craig Williamson (editor & translator), A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 195,\nThe two hard captives bound together as one punishing creature, wielded by a Welshwoman and slave, are probably the handle and swiple of a threshing flail."
        }
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        "Alternative form of swipple"
      ],
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  "word": "swiple"
}

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    {
      "form": "swiples",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "swipple"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1851, \"Flail\", entry in Cuthbert William Johnson, The Farmer's and Planter's Encyclopaedia of Rural Affairs, Lippincott, page 482,\nIt anciently was truly a whip, and sometimes had two or more lashes: the modern flail consists of the handle or handstaff, which the labourer holds in his hand, and uses as a lever, to raise up and bring down the swiple, or part which strikes the corn, and beats out the chaff and grain from the straw."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Donald Macdonald, Lewis: A history of the island, page 76:",
          "text": "The flail consisted of two parts, a six foot wooden staff attached by a sheepskin thong to a four foot buailtean, swiple of wood, thick tarry cable, or dried tangle.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "2011, Craig Williamson (editor & translator), A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 195,\nThe two hard captives bound together as one punishing creature, wielded by a Welshwoman and slave, are probably the handle and swiple of a threshing flail."
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of swipple"
      ],
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