Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete spelling of swingle.
  • noun Same as swingle, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in threshing; the swiple.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Anglo-Saxon swingele whip, scourge. See swing.

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