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SWINGLE
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : occupational name for a worker in the linen or hemp industry, from an agent derivative of Middle English swingle ‘swingle’ (see Swingle).
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a worker in the linen or hemp industry, from Middle English swingle ‘swingle’, a wooden implement used for beating flax or hemp (Middle Dutch swinghel, from the verb ‘to swing’).Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Zwingel, a topographic name from Middle High German zwingel ‘citadel’.
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English (Lancashire and Cumbria)
English (Lancashire and Cumbria) : probably a habitational name from Swinglehurst in Bowland Forest, West Yorkshire, so named from Old English swīn ‘hog’, ‘wild boar’ + hyll ‘hill’ + hyrst ‘wooded ridge’.
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v. t.
To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
n.
A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
n.
The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
v. i.
To dangle; to wave hanging.
v. t.
To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
v. i.
To swing for pleasure.
n.
The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Swingle
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.
n.
A swingletree.
imp. & p. p.
of Swingle
n.
The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree.
v. t.
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.
v. i.
A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.