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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



... once with a "close or strait brake," that is, one where the long, sharp-edge strips of wood were set closely together. Then it was scutched or swingled with a swingling block and knife, to take out any small particles of bark that might adhere. A man could swingle forty pounds of flax a day, but it was hard work. All this had to be done in clear sunny weather when the flax ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle


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