swingel
English
Etymology
Old English swingele (“whip, scourge”). See swing.
Noun
swingel (plural swingels)
- The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in threshing; the swiple.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for swingel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Swingle, slewing, swingle