swingle
/'swiŋgl/
📖 中文释义
- n. 打麻器
- vt. 用打麻器打清
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- v. i. To dangle; to wave hanging.
- v. i. To swing for pleasure.
- 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.
- v. t. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots;
- -- said of weeds.
- 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.