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

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.