Dictionary Entry
swingle
swingle is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To dangle; to wave hanging. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To dangle; to wave hanging.
- 2intransitive verb
To swing for pleasure.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
- 5noun
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.
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