SWINGLE

Definition: SWINGLE

SWINGLE

Intransitive verb

1. To swing for pleasure.

2. To dangle; to wave hanging.

Noun

1. A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.

Transitive verb

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

2. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: SWINGLE

Theater & Movies

• Swingle Singers: In Concert (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Swingle Singers - Bach Hits Back ~ A Capella Amadeus (reference)

• Bilingual Swingle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "SWINGLE": swingle-tail, swingle-tree.

Albanian

rrah me kopan, kopanis (drub, swish), kopan (brake, scourge). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضرب الكتان. (various references)

Bulgarian 

мъналка (brake, scutch, scutcher), мъна (scutch), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap). (various references)

Czech

třepit len. (various references)

Danish

svingel (fescue, fescue grass, swingle-trees, wippletrees), hammeltrae (guide frame, spreader, swingle-tree, yoke), hammelstok (swingle-trees, wippletrees), hammel (hitch evener, swingle bar, swingle tree, whippletree). (various references)

Dutch

zwengel (crank, crowbar), trekbalk (hitch evener, swingle bar, swingle tree, whippletree), evenaar (equator), dubbele dissel (swingle-trees, wippletrees), disselboom (hitch evener, swingle bar, swingle tree, whippletree), dissel (adze), balans (balance, balance sheet, equilibrium, fly, scales), balanceerinrichting (guide frame, spreader, swingle-tree, yoke). (various references)

French

batte. (various references)

German

zweiarmiger Hebel (guide frame, spreader, swingle-tree, yoke), Zugwaage (swingle-trees, wippletrees), Waagebalken (guide frame, spreader, swingle-tree, yoke), Traverse (traverse), Ortscheit mit Schwengel (swingle-trees, wippletrees), Eggenzugbalken (hitch evener, swingle bar, swingle tree, whippletree). (various references)

Greek 

κόπανοσ (flail, jerk, mallet, maul, rammer), κοπανίζω λινάρι. (various references)

Hungarian

tilol (scutch), tiló (scutcher). (various references)

Italian

trave superiore (guide frame, spreader, swingle-tree, yoke), bilancino d'attacco (hitch evener, swingle bar, swingle tree, whippletree), bilanciere (balancer, outrigger), bilancia con bilancino (swingle-trees, wippletrees). (various references)

Manx

breadagh whing (two horse swingle tree), breadagh (stretcher, swingle tree). (various references)

Pig Latin

inglesway

Portuguese

mango, espadelar (deckle, hackle, heckle, scutch), espadela (hackle, kill-devil, scutcher). (various references)

Romanian

meliţã (brake, comb, scutcher), meliţa (comb, Peel, scutch). (various references)

Russian 

трепало (scutcher). (various references)

Scottish

amal (swingle-tree). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trti, trlica za lan. (various references)

Spanish

espadilla (scull), espadar (breaking, scutching). (various references)

Swedish

slänga (chuck, dangle, dash, fling, flip, gulp, send, shy, slam, throw, toss), skäkta. (various references)

Turkish

tokmaklamak (beat with a mallet, beetle, Mall), keten tokmağı. (various references)

Ukrainian

тіпати (beat, brake), терниця (beetle, scutcher). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "SWINGLE": swingled, swingles, swingletree, swingletrees. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: slewing.

-1 letter: ingles, sewing, single, swinge.

-2 letters: glens, ingle, lenis, lewis, liens, lines, lings, lweis, segni, sengi, sinew, singe, sling, swine, swing, wiles, wines, wings.

-3 letters: egis, engs, gels, gens, gien, gies, gins, glen, isle, legs, leis, lens, lien, lies, line, ling, lins, lwei, news, nils, sewn, sign, sine, sing, slew, swig, wens, wigs, wile.

+1 letter: longwise, swelling, swingled, swingles, welshing, weltings, wingless, winglets.

+2 letters: dwellings, lacewings, swellings, swiveling, towelings, weaklings, weanlings, weaseling, wheelings, wineglass, wrestling.

+3 letters: clearwings, growliness, lawyerings, lengthwise, sweepingly, sweltering, swivelling, towellings, upswelling, upwellings, weaselling, wellspring, willingest, wrestlings.

+4 letters: disboweling, lowercasing, swingletree, wellsprings, wholesaling, willingness, wineglasses, wirelessing.

+5 letters: bowdlerising, disbowelling, growlinesses, lawbreakings, misknowledge, nightwalkers, outwrestling, racewalkings, sleepwalking, spacewalking, stonewalling, swaggeringly, swelteringly, swingletrees, whisperingly, winglessness.