Swinged vs Swingled - What's the difference?
swinged | swingled |
(swinge)
(nonstandard) (swing)
(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
(swingle)
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 swinged and swingled
is that swinged is past tense of swinge while swingled is past tense of swingle.swinged
English
Verb
(head)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.
Anagrams
* *swingled
English
Verb
(head)swingle
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)