Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swingling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swingle \Swin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swingled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Swingling}.] [See {Swingel}.]
1. 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.
2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; --
said of weeds. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swingling \Swin"gling\,
a. & n. from {Swingle}, v. t.
{Swingling tow}, the coarse part of flax, separated from the
finer by swingling and hatcheling.
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