An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch. / The swinging part of a flail, especially that which is used on the grain in threshing; the swiple.

(transitive) To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.

To dangle; to wave hanging. / (obsolete, UK, dialect) To swing for pleasure.

simple past tense and past participle of swingle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swingle

plural of swingle

A surname.

plural of Swingle

present participle of swingle

(countable, uncountable) The act or process of beating flax in order to extract the fibres.