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

1. intransitive verb. To dangle; to wave hanging.
2. intransitive verb. To swing for pleasure.
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive verb. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
5. noun. 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

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in swingle:

slewing, swingel

Common word forms

swingled, swingles, swingling

Words from these letters

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