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Singles vs Swingles - What's the difference?

singles | swingles |

As nouns the difference between singles and swingles

is that singles is while swingles is .

As verbs the difference between singles and swingles

is that singles is (single) while swingles is (swingle).

As an adjective singles

is of or pertaining to unmarried people.

singles

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to unmarried people.
    • a singles bar

    Noun

    (head)
    • He hit three singles last game, two the game before that.
    The band's first single became a hit record.
  • (sports, plurale tantum) a game between individual players

    • Coordinate terms

    * doubles * mixed doubles

    Verb

    (head)
  • (single)

    • swingles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swingle)

    • Noun

    (head)

    • swingle

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (swingl)
  • 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 ,
    • The first operation in dressing flax is to swingle or beat it, in order to detach it from the harle or skimps.
  • To beat off the tops of (weeds) without pulling up the roots.
    • (Forby)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (swingl)
  • To dangle; to wave hanging.
    • (Johnson)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To swing for pleasure.

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