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Swinge vs Swingel - What's the difference?

swinge | swingel |

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)
  • (obsolete) To singe.
  • (Spenser)
  • (archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
  • * Milton
  • Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
  • (archaic) To strike hard.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I had swinged him soundly.
  • * C. Dryden
  • And swinges his own vices in his son.
  • * Aphra Behn (1640-89) The Feigned Courtesans . This edition: (The plays of) Aphra Behn. Oxford University press 2000. p.233. ISBN 0192834517
  • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A swinging blow.
  • (obsolete) Power; sway; influence.
  • Anagrams

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    swingel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in threshing; the swiple.
  • (Webster 1913)