in comb.: swingle-bar SWINGLETREE 2; † swingle-foot, = SWINGLE sb. 1; also attrib. † swingle foot hards (see quot.); † swingle-head (?), -staff = SWINGLE sb. 1; swingle-stick, -stock = swing-stock (SWING- 2 b); swingle-tail, name for a species of shark = THRASHER1 2; swingle-wand = SWINGLE sb. 1.

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1849.  De Quincey, Eng. Mail-Coach, II. Wks. 1854, IV. 343. Either with the *swingle-bar, or with the haunch of our near leader, we had struck the off-wheel of the little gig.

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1907.  ‘Q’ (Quiller-Couch), Poison Isl., i. 8. The Royal Mail pulled up before Minden Cottage with a merry clash of bits and swingle-bars.

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1500.  Ortus Vocab., Excussorium, a *swyngelfote.

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1611.  Cotgr., Farasse … the coursest of Hempe, Swingle foot herds, course towe.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. iii. 106/1. A Swingle Foot. A Swingle Hand, corruptly a Swingow Hond: a thing like a Wooden Fauchion with a square hole or handle.

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1677.  Coles, Excudia and -ium, a *swingel-head.

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1664.  Gouldman, Lat. Eng. Dict., A *swingle-staff or bat to beat flax, scutula.

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1883.  Harper’s Mag., Aug., 390/1. The women stood about the fire, each beside her swingle-staff. This instrument is like a wooden pocketknife, about two feet long, with legs supporting it at the height of a table.

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c. 1325.  Gloss. W. de Bibbesw., in Wright, Voc., 156. Vostre pessel, a *swinglestyk.

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c. 1340.  Nominale (Skeat), 545. *Swangulstoke riplingcombe swyngilwande.

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14[?].  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 581/29. Excudia, a swyngylstok.

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c. 1475.  Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 795/11. Hec excudia, a sungyllestok.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 374/2. A Swyngilstoke, excudia, excudium.

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1839.  Storer, in Boston Jrnl. Nat. Hist., II. 529. Carcharias vulpes. Lin…. This species … is called by the fishermen ‘Thresher,’ and *‘Swingle tail.’

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c. 1340.  *Swyngilwande [see swingle-stock].

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1808.  Jamieson, Swingle-wand, the instrument with which flax is swingled.

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