Swinge vs Swingel - What's the difference?
swinge | swingel |
(obsolete) To singe.
(archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
* Milton
(archaic) To strike hard.
* Shakespeare
* C. Dryden
* Aphra Behn (1640-89) The Feigned Courtesans . This edition: (The plays of) Aphra Behn. Oxford University press 2000. p.233. ISBN 0192834517
The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in threshing; the swiple.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between swinge and swingel
is that swinge is (archaic) a swinging blow while swingel is the swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in threshing; the swiple.As a verb swinge
is (obsolete) to singe.swinge
English
Verb
(d)- (Spenser)
- Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
- I had swinged him soundly.
- And swinges his own vices in his son.
- Sir Feeble: Tis jelousy, the old worm that bites. [To Sir Cautious] Whom is it that you suspect.
- Sir Cautious: Alas I know not whom to suspect, I would I did; but if you discover him, I would swinge him.