swinglen.¹

/ˈswɪŋɡ(ə)l/

Forms: Also Middle English swengyl, swyngel, swyngil, swyngyl(l, swangul, sungylle, Middle English–1500s swyngell, 1500s swyngle, 1600s swingow, 1500s–1800s swingell, 1800s local swindgel(l, swingel, swinjel

/ˈswɪndʒ(ə)l/.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch swinghel swingle for flax, corresponding in form to Old English swingell , -el(l)e , swingle stroke or stripe with a rod, etc., whipping, scourging, chastisement, affliction, scourge, whip, also once, swingle or distaff (translating colus ), < swing v.¹ + -le suffix 1; or partly < (Middle) Low German swengel bell-clapper, pump-handle, swipe, Middle Dutch swenghel swipe, Dutch zwengel swingle, Middle High German swengel (German schwengel swipe, bell-clapper, swingletree, etc.) < *swaŋgwil- , < swaŋgw- (see swing v.¹). Some forms (swengyl, swangull, sungylle) show divergent stem-vowels the immediate source of which is not clear.

1. A wooden instrument resembling a sword, used for beating and scraping flax or hemp so as to cleanse it of woody or coarse particles; also called swingle-hand, swingle-staff, or swingle-wand, swingling-bat, swingling-knife, or swingling-staff.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > implement for

swinglec1325

swingle-stickc1325

swingle-stockc1340

swingle-wandc1340

brakec1450

swingle-hand1483

swindlehanda1500

swingletree?a1500

swingling-stock?a1500

swingle-foot1500

swingling-bat1552

tow-beetle1601

tewtaw1652

swingle-staff1664

swingle-head1677

cataract1693

hemp-beatera1726

hand brake1766

scutcher1766

scutchc1791

swingling-board1819

swingling-hand1825

bott-hammer1839

swingling-post1902

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 156 Le pesselin, the swingle.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 482/2 Swengyl, for flax or hempe, excudium.

?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 216 I haue both hempe and lyne..And a swyngyll good and grete.

?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 388 Sche brought a swyngyll att þe last.

1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 446 The swingle or scutching tool.

1850 J. Warnes Flax v. Cotton 13 The first blow of the swingle is the commencement of wages.

a. The striking part or swipple of a flail. local.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > flail > part of

flail-capc1440

flail-staffc1440

flail-swinglec1440

swinglec1440

swipplea1450

supple1556

flinging-tree1786

flail-stone1851

flapper1854

swindle1857

swingletree1858

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 482/2 Swengyl, of a fleyle or oþer lyke, feritorium.

1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Fustwial, a swyngell.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1657/1 A blow..with the swingle of a flayle.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel (1823) I. 90 While distant thresher's swingle drops With sharp and hollow-twanking raps.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830)

1889 F. Lucas Tasker in Sketches Rural Life xvi Then let our floors send up the sound Of the swinjel's measured stroke.

b. A weapon resembling a flail; a kind of cudgel.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > blunt weapons other than sticks > [noun] > flail or black-jack

flailc1475

wapper1481

scorpion1541

threshel1688

swingle1818

life-preserver1833

black jack1848

slung-shot1848

neddy1851

slingshot1891

slogger1892

Jack1911

nunchaku1969

nunchuck1970

1818 W. Chafin Anecd. Cranbourn Chase 35 They [sc. deer-stealers] came in the night..armed with deadly offensive weapons called swindgels, resembling flails to thresh corn.

1904 Daily News 7 Nov. 9 The keeper drew a ‘swingle’ round his legs, bringing him to the ground.

1905 J. C. Cox Royal Forests Eng. 84 Helmets and swindgel of the deer hunters of Cranbourn Chase.

†3. The clapper of a bell. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > clapper

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swingle14..

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kneppelc1500

tongue1577

clap1608

clacker1869

jinglet1881

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 567/39 Batillus, a belle clapere vel a swyngell.

a. A spoke or lever for turning the barrel in wire-drawing or the roller of a plate-press.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > wire-making equipment

wortlea1525

swingle1674

reel1825

copper1828

riddle1843

1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 133 Underneath is fastened to the barrel a spoke of wood, which they call a Swingle which is drawn back a good way by the calms or cogs in the Axis of the wheel, and draws back the barrel which falls to again by it's own weight.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.

b. A crank.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > converters > cranks

winch1660

wince1688

crank1728

swingle1787

throw-crank1858

1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 390 Swingle, a crank.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

swinglen.²

/ˈswɪŋɡ(ə)l/

Etymology: Blend of swinging adj. 3c, 3d and single n. 5c.

North American slang.

A ‘swinging’ single or unaccompanied person; spec. one in search of a sexual partner.

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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > single person in seeking lover

swingle1967

1967 Glamour June 82 Hilton Swingles Week. We created a week for people like you: Swinging Singles.

1973 Newsweek 16 July 53 The sheer number of singles, meshed with the media's seductive imagery (singles who swing are jauntily dubbed ‘swingles’), is gradually revising society's view of its unwed members.

1978 Chatelaine (Canada) Dec. 106/3 When she went out with her women friends for an evening, their husbands felt she was luring their wives into swingles bars and white slavery.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

swinglev.¹

Forms: see swingle n.¹; also Middle English swyngill, ( squyngyl), 1700s dialect sungle.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch swinghelen, < swinghel swingle n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswingle.

1. transitive. To beat and scrape (flax or hemp) with a swingle, in order to cleanse it of the coarser particles; to scutch. Also absol.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > treat or process flax, hemp, or jute [verb (transitive)] > beat

swinglec1325

braya1398

riba1398

shive1483

bunch1601

tewtaw1601

rough-dress1622

towtaw1652

scutch1733

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 156 Estonger vostre leyn, to swingle the flax.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 581 Excudio, to squyngyl.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1829 in Poems (1981) 71 The carll pullit the lyne,..swyngillit it weill, and hekkillit in the flet.

?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 389 ‘Good syres,’ sche seyd, ‘swyngylle on fast; For no þing that ye blynne’.

?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 401 Þe stuard þat was so stowde, Was fayne to swyngelle þe scales owte.

1590 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 61 Foure womene w^ch did brake hempe and swynglye.

1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. v. 133 After your Hemp and flax is brak't, you shall then swingle it, which is upon a swingle tree blocke made of an half inch boord about four foot aboue ground, and set upon a strong foot or stock.

1711 S. Sewall Diary 15 Jan. (1973) II. 651 It came by a man's blowing out his pipe, who was swingling Flax.

1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 24 Sept. 478/2 Choice swingled Flax.

1794 W. Anderson Piper of Peebles 6 Lint was beaten wi' the mell An' ilkane ane sungled to themsell.

1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. v. 150 Weeding, steeping, grassing, and swingling or cleaning the flax.

1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 390/1 I found a group of bare-armed women under the trees swingling flax.

2. To cut off the tops of (weeds) without uprooting. local. (Cf. swinge v.¹ 3.)

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > weed land

louka1000

weeda1325

cleanc1450

spud1652

swinglea1825

couch1846

twitch1886

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830)

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

swinglev.²

Etymology: < swing v.¹ + -le suffix 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswingle.

†1. transitive. To swing or flourish about. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > flourish or brandish

shakec1000

stirc1275

wagc1300

brandisha1340

flourishc1384

swinga1400

swinglec1450

ruffle?1562

sweak1567

vambrash1577

sway1590

swinge1605

to fetch about1609

wave1609

wheel1617

evibrate1654

c1450 [implied in: c1450 in Aungier Syon (1840) 300 Goynge..withe oute swynglynge of armes or of handes. (at swingling n.²)].

2. intransitive. To swing; to hang, be suspended. dialect.

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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)]

hangc1000

resta1350

loll?c1418

uphangc1440

suspend1598

swing1641

swingle1755

string1885

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > swing

totterc1200

swing1545

vibrate1667

pendulate1698

swingle1755

pendulum1885

to play pendulum1893

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Swingle, v.n. 1. To dangle; to wave hanging. 2. To swing in pleasure.

1830 J. Hogg Greek Pastoral 15 Where clouds and mountains seem'd to swingle, And Ossa with Olympus mingle.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

> see also

also refers to : swingle-comb. form

n.¹c1325

n.²1967

v.¹c1325

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单词	swingle
释义	swinglen.¹ /ˈswɪŋɡ(ə)l/ Forms: Also Middle English swengyl, swyngel, swyngil, swyngyl(l, swangul, sungylle, Middle English–1500s swyngell, 1500s swyngle, 1600s swingow, 1500s–1800s swingell, 1800s local swindgel(l, swingel, swinjel /ˈswɪndʒ(ə)l/. Etymology: < Middle Dutch swinghel swingle for flax, corresponding in form to Old English swingell , -el(l)e , swingle stroke or stripe with a rod, etc., whipping, scourging, chastisement, affliction, scourge, whip, also once, swingle or distaff (translating colus ), < swing v.¹ + -le suffix 1; or partly < (Middle) Low German swengel bell-clapper, pump-handle, swipe, Middle Dutch swenghel swipe, Dutch zwengel swingle, Middle High German swengel (German schwengel swipe, bell-clapper, swingletree, etc.) < swaŋgwil- , < swaŋgw-* (see swing v.¹). Some forms (swengyl, swangull, sungylle) show divergent stem-vowels the immediate source of which is not clear. 1. A wooden instrument resembling a sword, used for beating and scraping flax or hemp so as to cleanse it of woody or coarse particles; also called swingle-hand, swingle-staff, or swingle-wand, swingling-bat, swingling-knife, or swingling-staff. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > implement for swinglec1325 swingle-stickc1325 swingle-stockc1340 swingle-wandc1340 brakec1450 swingle-hand1483 swindlehanda1500 swingletree?a1500 swingling-stock?a1500 swingle-foot1500 swingling-bat1552 tow-beetle1601 tewtaw1652 swingle-staff1664 swingle-head1677 cataract1693 hemp-beatera1726 hand brake1766 scutcher1766 scutchc1791 swingling-board1819 swingling-hand1825 bott-hammer1839 swingling-post1902 c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 156 Le pesselin, the swingle. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 482/2 Swengyl, for flax or hempe, excudium. ?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 216 I haue both hempe and lyne..And a swyngyll good and grete. ?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 388 Sche brought a swyngyll att þe last. 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 446 The swingle or scutching tool. 1850 J. Warnes Flax v. Cotton 13 The first blow of the swingle is the commencement of wages. 2. a. The striking part or swipple of a flail. local. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > flail > part of flail-capc1440 flail-staffc1440 flail-swinglec1440 swinglec1440 swipplea1450 supple1556 flinging-tree1786 flail-stone1851 flapper1854 swindle1857 swingletree1858 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 482/2 Swengyl, of a fleyle or oþer lyke, feritorium. 1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Fustwial, a swyngell. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1657/1 A blow..with the swingle of a flayle. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel (1823) I. 90 While distant thresher's swingle drops With sharp and hollow-twanking raps. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) 1889 F. Lucas Tasker in Sketches Rural Life xvi Then let our floors send up the sound Of the swinjel's measured stroke. b. A weapon resembling a flail; a kind of cudgel. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > blunt weapons other than sticks > [noun] > flail or black-jack flailc1475 wapper1481 scorpion1541 threshel1688 swingle1818 life-preserver1833 black jack1848 slung-shot1848 neddy1851 slingshot1891 slogger1892 Jack1911 nunchaku1969 nunchuck1970 1818 W. Chafin Anecd. Cranbourn Chase 35 They [sc. deer-stealers] came in the night..armed with deadly offensive weapons called swindgels, resembling flails to thresh corn. 1904 Daily News 7 Nov. 9 The keeper drew a ‘swingle’ round his legs, bringing him to the ground. 1905 J. C. Cox Royal Forests Eng. 84 Helmets and swindgel of the deer hunters of Cranbourn Chase. †3. The clapper of a bell. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > clapper clapper1379 swingle14.. bell-clapper1498 kneppelc1500 tongue1577 clap1608 clacker1869 jinglet1881 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 567/39 Batillus, a belle clapere vel a swyngell. 4. a. A spoke or lever for turning the barrel in wire-drawing or the roller of a plate-press. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > wire-making equipment wortlea1525 swingle1674 reel1825 copper1828 riddle1843 1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 133 Underneath is fastened to the barrel a spoke of wood, which they call a Swingle which is drawn back a good way by the calms or cogs in the Axis of the wheel, and draws back the barrel which falls to again by it's own weight. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. b. A crank. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > converters > cranks winch1660 wince1688 crank1728 swingle1787 throw-crank1858 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 390 Swingle, a crank. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021). swinglen.² /ˈswɪŋɡ(ə)l/ Etymology: Blend of swinging adj. 3c, 3d and single n. 5c. North American slang. A ‘swinging’ single or unaccompanied person; spec. one in search of a sexual partner. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > single person in seeking lover swingle1967 1967 Glamour June 82 Hilton Swingles Week. We created a week for people like you: Swinging Singles. 1973 Newsweek 16 July 53 The sheer number of singles, meshed with the media's seductive imagery (singles who swing are jauntily dubbed ‘swingles’), is gradually revising society's view of its unwed members. 1978 Chatelaine (Canada) Dec. 106/3 When she went out with her women friends for an evening, their husbands felt she was luring their wives into swingles bars and white slavery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019). swinglev.¹ Forms: see swingle n.¹; also Middle English swyngill, ( squyngyl), 1700s dialect sungle. Etymology: < Middle Dutch swinghelen, < swinghel swingle n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswingle. 1. transitive. To beat and scrape (flax or hemp) with a swingle, in order to cleanse it of the coarser particles; to scutch. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > treat or process flax, hemp, or jute [verb (transitive)] > beat swinglec1325 braya1398 riba1398 shive1483 bunch1601 tewtaw1601 rough-dress1622 towtaw1652 scutch1733 c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 156 Estonger vostre leyn, to swingle the flax. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 581 Excudio, to squyngyl. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1829 in Poems (1981) 71 The carll pullit the lyne,..swyngillit it weill, and hekkillit in the flet. ?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 389 ‘Good syres,’ sche seyd, ‘swyngylle on fast; For no þing that ye blynne’. ?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 401 Þe stuard þat was so stowde, Was fayne to swyngelle þe scales owte. 1590 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 61 Foure womene w^ch did brake hempe and swynglye. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. v. 133 After your Hemp and flax is brak't, you shall then swingle it, which is upon a swingle tree blocke made of an half inch boord about four foot aboue ground, and set upon a strong foot or stock. 1711 S. Sewall Diary 15 Jan. (1973) II. 651 It came by a man's blowing out his pipe, who was swingling Flax. 1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 24 Sept. 478/2 Choice swingled Flax. 1794 W. Anderson Piper of Peebles 6 Lint was beaten wi' the mell An' ilkane ane sungled to themsell. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. v. 150 Weeding, steeping, grassing, and swingling or cleaning the flax. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 390/1 I found a group of bare-armed women under the trees swingling flax. 2. To cut off the tops of (weeds) without uprooting. local. (Cf. swinge v.¹ 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > weed land louka1000 weeda1325 cleanc1450 spud1652 swinglea1825 couch1846 twitch1886 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020). swinglev.² Etymology: < swing v.¹ + -le suffix 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswingle. †1. transitive. To swing or flourish about. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > flourish or brandish shakec1000 stirc1275 wagc1300 brandisha1340 flourishc1384 swinga1400 swinglec1450 ruffle?1562 sweak1567 vambrash1577 sway1590 swinge1605 to fetch about1609 wave1609 wheel1617 evibrate1654 c1450 [implied in: c1450 in Aungier Syon (1840) 300 Goynge..withe oute swynglynge of armes or of handes. (at swingling n.²)]. 2. intransitive. To swing; to hang, be suspended. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] hangc1000 resta1350 loll?c1418 uphangc1440 suspend1598 swing1641 swingle1755 string1885 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > swing totterc1200 swing1545 vibrate1667 pendulate1698 swingle1755 pendulum1885 to play pendulum1893 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Swingle, v.n. 1. To dangle; to wave hanging. 2. To swing in pleasure. 1830 J. Hogg Greek Pastoral 15 Where clouds and mountains seem'd to swingle, And Ossa with Olympus mingle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2019). > see also also refers to : swingle-comb. form < n.¹c1325n.²1967v.¹c1325v.²c1450 see also
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