Local variant of SWINGLE sb. Also in Comb. swyndilland = SWINGLE-HAND.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 696/7–8. Hoc exculidium, a swyndylstoc. Hoc excudium, a swyndilland.
1857. Borrow, Romany Rye, xxx. I drank with the harvesters, who sang me songs about rural life, such as—‘Sitting in the swale; and listening to the swindle of the flail, as it sounds dub-a-dub on the corn, from the neighbouring barn.’
