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swingled

swingled is the simple past and past participle of swingle.

Meaning of swingle

Verb (1)

swingle (third-person singular simple present swingles, present participle swingling, simple past and past participle swingled)

  1. (transitive) To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
    • Now after you have swingled your Hempe and Flaxe ouer once, you shall take and shake up the refuse stuffe, which you beate from the same seuerally, and not only it, but the tops and knots, and halfe brak't buns which fall from the brake also, and drying them againe cause them to bee very well...1623, Gervase Markham, Country Contentments, or The approued Booke called the English Hous-wife, page 168

Verb (2)

swingle (third-person singular simple present swingles, present participle swingling, simple past and past participle swingled)

  1. To dangle; to wave hanging.
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To swing for pleasure.

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Questions about swingled

What is swingled the simple past and past participle of?
Swingled is the simple past and past participle of swingle.

Words near swingled in the dictionary

  1. swingle trees
  2. swingle-tree
  3. swingle-trees
  4. swinglebar
  5. swinglebars
  6. swingled
  7. swingles
  8. swingless
  9. swingletail
  10. swingletails
  11. swingletree

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