Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
swipple .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.
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- noun Alternative form of
swipple .
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Examples
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And my uniform-case, of which he never let go, described a very beautiful parabola, and then came down upon the weigh-bridge, as the swiple of an uplifted flail comes down upon grain ....
Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922
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Both parts, the staff or handle, and the swingle or swiple, were carefully shaped from well-chosen wood, to be joined together later by an eelskin or leather strap.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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