| 单词 | swingletree dagger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswingletree dagger 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. < as lemmas |
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