单词 | swingletree |
释义 | swingletreen. 1. A board used in dressing flax or hemp: = swing-stock, swingle-stock (see swing- comb. form 2b, swingle- comb. form). Also called swingletree block. swingletree dagger = swing-knife (swing- comb. form 2b), swingle n.1 1. Obsolete or dialect. 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 ?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 528 One of hem knockyd lyne, A-nothyr swyngelyd good and fyne By-fore the swyngyll tre. 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. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. v. 134 A piece of Wood called the Swingle~tree dagger. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Swingle Swingle-tree, the stock over which flax is scutched..; synon. Swingling-stock. 2. In a plough, harrow, carriage, etc., a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces are fastened, giving freedom of movement to the shoulders of the horse or other draught-animal.An altered form single-tree n., due to association with double-tree (= the crosspiece to which the swingletree is attached), is common in U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > swingle-tree swing-tree1396 swingletree1483 spring-tree1600 bridge tree1607 whippin1697 whippletree1733 cross-tree1765 splinter-bar1765 swindle-tree1801 shackle-bar1834 whiffletree1842 heel tree1846 single-tree1847 swingle-bar1849 pulling-tree1895 trace-block1900 1483 Cath. Angl. 375/1 A Swyngilstre (A. Swyngyltre) of a harowe, protectorium. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. x The horses..must haue..a swyngletre to holde the tresses abrode, and a togewith to be betwene the singletre and the harrowe. 1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husbandry (1668) ii. xiii. 61 To the big end of this harrow, you shall fix a strong rope with a swingle-tree. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 336/1 The Swingle Tree of a Coach Pole..fastned by..pinns to the Coach Pole, to the which Horses are fastned by their Harnish when there is more then two to draw the Coach. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. v. 180 It [sc. the bridle or muzzle of the plough] has notches by which the cleek of the swingle-tree may be fixed. a1817 W. Muir Poems (1818) 8 The very pettle, riest an' seath,..The swingle~trees an' a' the graith. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 417 To the shackle is appended the swivel-hook, to which is attached the main draught-bar, or swingle-tree of the yoke. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 104 One swingle~tree between the footboard and the splinter bar. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 115 His leaders..wrenched the swingletrees off the pole, and the uncoupled reins out of the coachman's hands. 3. = swingle n.1 2. dialect. 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 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Swingle-tree,..in Scotland the striking end of a flail. 1907 T. M. Allison in Country-side 16 Nov. 27/1 The handle [of the flail]..was held in the hands, and the beater, or ‘swingle-tree’ was swung round behind the head. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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