swingle的中文意思、音标与词形变化

n. 打麻器 vt. 用打麻器打清

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.