SWINGLES
- SWINGLE, to scutch (to separate the woody fiber from by beating) [v]
- swipple
- wooden instrument shaped like a large knife, for beating flax or hemp and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions
- to clean (flax or hemp) by beating and scraping with a swingle
- SWINGLE, to separate the woody fibre by beating, also SCUTCH [v]
- single person who swings, esp. one who is highly active socially and sexually