Swingled vs Swingles - What's the difference?
swingled | swingles |
(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 swingled and swingles
is that swingled is (swingle) while swingles is (swingle).As a noun swingles is
.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)