swingling
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
swingling
- present participle and gerund of swingle
Noun[edit]
swingling (plural swinglings)
- (countable, uncountable) The act or process of beating flax in order to extract the fibres.
- 1787, The American Museum, Or Universal Magazine:
- […] then lay over these sticks, either a clean old blanket, or, if that be not at hand, a quantity of the swinglings of flax […]