Swingle vs Swinge - What's the difference?
swingle | swinge |
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.
(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
As verbs the difference between swingle and swinge
is that 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 while swinge is (obsolete) to singe.As nouns the difference between swingle and swinge
is that swingle is an implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch while swinge is (archaic) a swinging blow.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)
Anagrams
*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.