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 swingle
 打麻器(vt.)用打麻器打

 Swin·gle v. i.
 1. To dangle; to wave hanging. [Obs.]
 2. To swing for pleasure. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

 Swin·gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swingled p. pr. & vb. n. Swingling ]
 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.]

 Swin·gle, 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.
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