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To swing for pleasure.

To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.

To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.

A wooden implement, for beating flax.

The short wooden bar of a flail.

A wooden instrument used in swingling; a swingle-knife.

To clean flax by beating it.

To beat; to clean or dress by beating, as flax; to swing or dangle.

In wireworks, a wooden spoke fixed to the barrel that draws the wire; a crank.

n. A wooden instrument like a large knife, used for cleaning flax.