swingling

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.

See all 6 meanings of swingle