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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -swingle-, *swingle*
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CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary Dictionary [with local updates]
swingle
swingler
swingler
swingley

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Swingle

v. i. [ Freq. of swing. ] 1. To dangle; to wave hanging. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To swing for pleasure. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Swingle

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swingled p. pr. & vb. n. Swingling ] [ See Swingel. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds. [ Prov. Eng. ] Forby. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swingle

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swinglebar

n. A swingletree. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swingletail

n. (Zool.) The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swingletree

n. [ So named in allusion to its swinging. See Swingle, v. i., and cf. Swingtree. ] A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree. [ 1913 Webster ]

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