different between swingel vs swipple
swingel
English
Etymology
From Middle English swingel, from Old English swingele (“whip, scourge”), equivalent to swing +? -el (diminutive suffix). See swing.
Noun
swingel (plural swingels)
- The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in threshing; the swiple.
Anagrams
- Swingle, slewing, swingle
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swipple
English
Alternative forms
- swipel
- swiple
Etymology
See swipe.
Noun
swipple (plural swipples)
- The part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing.
- 1907, Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris, Nunburnholme: its history and antiquities, H. Frowde, page 227,
- The flail has now become such a rare agricultural implement that it is well to bear in mind that its two main parts were the handstaff and swipple.
- 1907, Notes and Queries, Oxford University Press, page 317,
- As showing the local influence of the tool, one may refer to the custom in Yorkshire by which a girl, on being proposed to, took a piece of straw and broke it into two lengths (long and short), typifying the handstaff and swipple of the flail. If she gave the former to her lover, she accepted him: but if she tendered the shorter piece, "she gave him 't swipple end," or rejected him.
- 2011, Robert E. Gough, Cheryl Moore-Gough, The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds, Storey Publishing, page 46,
- Traditional flails had a handle (haft), usually about 40 inches long, and a swipple (also called a swingle), about 24 inches long. The two pieces were hinged together with leather or eel skin.
- 1907, Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris, Nunburnholme: its history and antiquities, H. Frowde, page 227,
Synonyms
- (part of a flail that is free to swing): swingel
Translations
swipple From the web:
- what is swipple mean
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