Deceive vs Swingle - What's the difference?
deceive | swingle |
To trick or mislead.
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to beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch
* 1858 , John Harland (editor), The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster ,
To beat off the tops of (weeds) without pulling up the roots.
To dangle; to wave hanging.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To swing for pleasure.
As verbs the difference between deceive and swingle
is that deceive is to trick or mislead while swingle is to beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch or swingle can be to dangle; to wave hanging.As a noun swingle is
an implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch.deceive
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(deceiv)citation, page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}
Synonyms
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English
Etymology 1
Verb
(swingl)- The first operation in dressing flax is to swingle or beat it, in order to detach it from the harle or skimps.
- (Forby)
Etymology 2
Verb
(swingl)- (Johnson)