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swipples

swipples is the plural 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

Questions about swipples

What is swipples the plural of?
Swipples is the plural of swipple.

Words near swipples in the dictionary

  1. swiping right
  2. swiple
  3. swiples
  4. swipper
  5. swipple
  6. swipples
  7. SWIR
  8. swire
  9. swires
  10. swirl
  11. swirl flap

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