单词：swingle
音标：['swiŋgl] ；
n. 打麻器
vt. 用打麻器打清
vt. 用打麻器打清
v. i. To dangle; to wave hanging.
v. i. To swing for pleasure.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots;
-- said of weeds.
n. 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.
v. i. To swing for pleasure.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots;
-- said of weeds.
n. 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.
词型变化：名词复数形式 : swingles