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Swingling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Beating and cleaning, as flax.

Swingling Webster's Dictionary 1913

a. & n. from Swingle, v. t.

Swingling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Swingling-knife [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. SWIN'GLING-KNIFE

2. SWIN'GLE, noun A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for cleaning flax of the shives.

Swingling-tow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.

2. The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened. In America, it is often or generally called the whiffle-tree, or whipple-tree.