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Definition of: swingle
(swing′gəl) noun
1. A large, knifelike wooden implement for beating flax: also swing′·knife.
2. The short wooden bar of a flail; a swiple.
—v.t. ·gled, ·gling To cleanse, as flax, by beating with a swingle; scutch. [<MDu. swinghel. Akin to SWING.]
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