- a swipple.
- a wooden instrument shaped like a large knife, for beating flax or hemp and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
- to clean (flax or hemp) by beating and scraping with a swingle.
- a single person who is highly active socially and sexually; an unmarried person who swings.
- a flat-bladed wooden instrument used for beating and scraping flax or hemp to remove coarse matter from it
- to use a swingle on
