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swiple

swiple is the alternative form of swipple.

Meaning of swipple

Noun

swipple (plural swipples)

  1. The part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing.
    • The flail has now become such a rare agricultural implement that it is well to bear in mind that its two main parts were the handstaff and swipple.1907, Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris, Nunburnholme: its history and antiquities, H. Frowde, page 227
    Synonyms:
    swingle

Forms of swiple

pluralswiples

Questions about swiple

What is swiple the alternative form of?
Swiple is the alternative form of swipple.

Words near swiple in the dictionary

  1. swipes right
  2. swipey
  3. swiping
  4. swiping left
  5. swiping right
  6. swiple
  7. swiples
  8. swipper
  9. swipple
  10. swipples
  11. SWIR

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