Lexicographical Neighbors of Swingling
Literary usage of Swingling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"1. A wooden instrument used for beating flax and scraping from it the woody parts.
Also swing-knife, swingle-staff, swingling-knife or -staff. ..."
2. History of Old Chester [N.H.] from 1719 to 1869 by Benjamin Chase (1869)
"The next operation was swingling. A board about seven inches wide and four ...
This was a ," swingling board/' A heavy wooden knife about two feet long was ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"1. A wooden instrument used for beating flax and scraping from it the woody parts.
Also swing-knife, swingle-staff, swingling-knife or -staff. ..."
4. History of Old Chester [N.H.] from 1719 to 1869 by Benjamin Chase (1869)
"The next operation was swingling. A board about seven inches wide and four ...
This was a ," swingling board/' A heavy wooden knife about two feet long was ..."
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