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Definition of Swingle

Swingle
Swingle Swin"gle, v. i. [Freq. of swing.] 1. To dangle; to wave hanging. [Obs.] --Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Swingle
Swingle Swin"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swingling.] [See Swingel.] 1. To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch. 2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby.
Swingle
Swingle Swin"gle, n. A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.

Meaning of Swingle from wikipedia

- The Swingles are an a cappella vocal group. The Swingle Singers were originally formed in 1962 in Paris under the leadership of Ward Swingle. In 1973,...
- Look up Swingle or swingle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swingle may refer to: Alice Haskins Swingle, an American government botanist Lyman Alexander...
- Ward Lamar Swingle (September 21, 1927 – January 19, 2015) was an American vocalist and jazz musician who founded The Swingle Singers in France in 1962...
- Historically they were viewed as falling within the genus Citrus, but the Swingle system of citrus taxonomy elevated them to their own genus, Fortunella...
- The Paris-based Swingle Singers recorded regularly for Philips in the 1960s and early 1970s and the successor London-based group continued to record,...
- Rich Swingle is an American film actor, screenwriter and stage actor. He also is a Freedom Finder for Graceworks Inc. and teaches at the Rocky Mountain...
- A swingletree (British Isles) or singletree (North America) is a small wooden or metal bar behind a harnessed horse. It is used to balance the pull of...
- Walter Tennyson Swingle (January 8, 1871 – January 19, 1952) was an American agricultural botanist who contributed greatly to the classification and taxonomy...
- margarita. It is described again by the American botanist Walter Tennyson Swingle in 1915, as varieties of Citrus ****onica. However, recent phylogenetic...
- ****onica Thunb". BioLib. Retrieved 2024-01-26. "Fortunella ****onica (Thunb.) Swingle". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2024-01-26. "Citrus...