swingle

To clean, as flax, by beating and scraping with a swingle or swing-knife.

To cut off the tops of without pulling up the roots, as weeds.

A wooden instrument used for beating flax and scraping from it the woody parts. Also swing-knife, swingle-staff, swingling-knife or –staff.

That part of a flail which falls upon the grain in threshing; a swipple.

A kind of spoke or lever, like the hand-spike of a capstan, used in turning the barrel in wire-drawing.

One of the radiating arms by which the roller of a plate-press is turned.

To dangle; wave hanging.

To swing for pleasure.

To dangle; to wave hanging.

To swing for pleasure.