Swingled vs Swindled - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between swingled and swindled

is that swingled is (swingle) while swindled is (swindle).

(head)

(swingle)

(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)

(en noun)

An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch

(swingl)

To dangle; to wave hanging.

(Johnson)

(obsolete, UK, dialect) To swing for pleasure.

(head)

(swindle)

(swindl)

To defraud (someone).

''The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.

To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

* (to be swindled) be sold a pup * (to defraud) swizz (informal, mainly British)

(en noun)

An instance of .

* scheme, swizz (informal, mainly British)