What is the meaning of SWINGLE. Phrases containing SWINGLE
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the wooden bar at the end of a horse’s traces
Swingle is American slang for a lively single person, especially one who goes out seeking a sexual partner.
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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. i.
A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.
n.
The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
v. t.
To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
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.
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 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.
v. t.
To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
v. i.
To swing for pleasure.
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n.
A swingletree.
v. i.
To dangle; to wave hanging.
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