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▪ I. † swingling, vbl. n.1 Obs.|ˈswɪŋglɪŋ|
In 1 swinglung, (swinclung), 5 swyngyllyng.
[Cf. Icel. svingla to rove, Da. svingla to reel, stagger, svingling reeling, giddiness. The form in the northern Alph. Tales may be from Scandinavian.]
Giddiness, dizziness, vertigo.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülucker 112/18 Scotomia, swinglung. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 344 Ðam mannum þe swinclunge [v.r. swinglunge] þrowiað. c1440Alphabet of Tales 19 And þer fell a swyngyllyng in his hede þat he wex fonde with.
▪ II. † swingling, vbl. n.2
See swingle v.2 1.
c1450in Aungier Syon (1840) 300 Goynge..withe oute swynglynge of armes or of handes.
▪ III. swingling, vbl. n.3|ˈswɪŋglɪŋ|
[f. swingle v.1 + -ing1.]
The process of dressing flax or hemp with a swingle; scutching.
c1462, etc. [see b]. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. iii. 106/2 Swingowing, is the beating off the brused inward Stalk of the Hemp or Flax, from the outward pill. 1765Museum Rust. IV. cvi. 456 When the flax grows crooked, it is more liable to be hurt in the rippling and swingling. 1847Nicholls in Jrnl. Roy. Agric. Soc. VIII. ii. 457 Scutching or Swingling..is the act of clearing the fibre [of flax] from the woody part of the stalk after it has been bruised and loosened by the break.
b. attrib., as swingling machine, swingling operation; swingling-bat, -knife, -staff = swingle n.1 1; swingling-board, -post, -stock = swingle-stock, swing-stock (see swing- 2); swingling-hand = swingle-hand; swingling-tow, the coarse part of flax, separated by swingling.
c1462Wright's Chaste Wife 386 The wyfe þrew hym a swyngelyng stocke. 1552Huloet, Swynglyngbatte, or staffe to beate flaxe, scutula. 1583Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) 78 Two swinglinge stockes withe theire swynglinges. 1689[see swingle-hand]. 1819Mass. Spy 3 Nov. 2/2 My wife threw a swingling board at the man who had me by the hand. 1825Jamieson, Swingling-hand, a wooden lath or sword for dressing flax. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. I. 39 Spinning-wheel and reel, swingling-stake [sic] and hatchel. 1828–32Webster, Swingling-tow, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 493 The scutching or swingling machine. 1851A. Marshall in Schroeder Ann. Yorks. I. 419 Making less dust in the swingling operation. 1902A. Thomson Lauder & Lauderd. xxii. 259 A swingling post, sloping slightly, was firmly fixed in the floor of the barn. |