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单词 swipple
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swipplen.

/ˈswɪp(ə)l/
Forms: Also Middle English swepelles, swepyl, swipylle, 1600s sweaple, 1600s–1800s swiple, 1800s Scottish swoople, swupple. See also supple n.
Etymology: probably originally < swēp-, sweep v. or swip-, swip v. + instrumental suffix -els suffix. Compare Low German swepelbessen broom with which chaff is swept up.
1. A besom, mop. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > [noun] > mopping or swabbing > mop or swab
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mapplea1406
malkin1440
mop1496
makron1552
swabber1606
swab1787
swab-stick1839
file1851
squilgee1851
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 616/12 Tersorium, a swepelles (a malkyn).
2. The part of a flail that strikes the grain in thrashing.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > forage harvester
swipplea1450
forage harvester1944
flail harvester1959
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > flail > part of
flail-capc1440
flail-staffc1440
flail-swinglec1440
swinglec1440
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supple1556
flinging-tree1786
flail-stone1851
flapper1854
swindle1857
swingletree1858
a1450 Tourn. Tottenham 167 Of sum were the hedys brokyn..Wyth swyppyng of swepyls [v.r. swipylles].
1609 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 184 For hollyn swipples, vijd.
1619 in J. Harland House & Farm Shuttleworths (1856) I. 239 Twelve swipples.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 333/1 The Swiple [of a Flail or Threshal is] that part as striketh out the Corn.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. at Barnman's-jig The swoople on the end of the hand-staff.
1902 A. Thomson Lauder & Lauderdale xxiii. 261 An early working model of the threshing mill consisted of a series of flails or swiples..dangerous to approach.
1907 M. C. F. Morris Nunburnholme 249 The sound of the swipple on the barn floor was heard every working day all through the winter.
3. apparently A swivel. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > on which anything turns
swivel1307
pivot1398
gudgeon1496
turning-pin1591
tampion1611
trunniona1625
pole1633
swipple1691
spill1731
millier1778
turn-pin1862
hinge-pin1881
1691 London Gaz. No. 2632/4 A Gold Japanned Watch, with a Gold Chain, and 3 Sweaples.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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