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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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 \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 \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}.