Crossword-Solution: SWINGLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Swingle | v. i. | To dangle; to wave hanging. |
| Swingle | v. i. | To swing for pleasure. |
| Swingle | 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. |
| Swingle | v. t. | To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds. |
| Swingle | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SWINGLE | anagram | SLEWING |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Flax implement | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with SWINGLE (5)
When touched with the rein he would stand and wait until the old furrow-horse put in a few steps; then plunge to get ahead of him, and if a chain or a swingle-tree or something else did n't break, and Dave kept the plough in, he ripped and tore along in style, bearing in and bearing out, and knocking the old horse about till that much-enduring animal became as cranky as himself, and the pace terrible.
And, after he had kicked Dad and smashed all the swingle-trees about the place, and got right out of his harness a couple of times and sulked for two days, he went well enough beside Anderson's old grey mare.
This one swung himself off the box-seat with the alacrity of a man who has no doubts about the upshot of the quarrel, and after hanging his caped coat upon the swingle-bar, he daintily turned up the ruffled cuffs of his white cambric shirt.
Either with the swingle-bar, or with the haunch of our near leader, we had struck the off-wheel of the little gig; which stood rather obliquely, and not quite so far advanced as to be accurately parallel with the near-wheel.
The distaff, the quill-wheel, the spinning-wheel, the reel, were very familiar to me as a boy; so was the crackle, the swingle, the hetchel, for Father grew flax which Mother spun into thread and wove into cloth for our shirts and summer trousers, and for towels and sheets.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1984).