Swingled vs Swingle - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between swingled and swingle

is that swingled is (swingle) while 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.

As a noun swingle is

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

swingled

English

Verb

(head)

(swingle)

swingle

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(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)

Noun

(en noun)

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

Etymology 2

Verb

(swingl)

To dangle; to wave hanging.

(Johnson)

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

Anagrams

swingle

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(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)

Noun

(en noun)

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

Etymology 2

Verb

(swingl)

To dangle; to wave hanging.

(Johnson)

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