different between swingle vs shingle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw??.?l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Etymology 1

From Middle English swingelen, from the noun (see below). Related to Middle Dutch swingelen, swengelen.

Verb

swingle (third-person singular simple present swingles, present participle swingling, simple past and past participle swingled)

1. (transitive) To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
   • 1858, John Harland (editor), The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster

     The first operation in dressing flax is to swingle or beat it, in order to detach it from the harle or skimps.

2. (transitive) To beat off the tops of (weeds) without pulling up the roots.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English swingel, from Old English swingel, swingelle (“whip, scourge”), equivalent to swing +? -le. Related to Middle Dutch swingel, swengel, Dutch zwingel, zwengel. Doublet of swingel.

Noun

swingle (plural swingles)

1. An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch.

Etymology 3

From swing +? -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb

swingle (third-person singular simple present swingles, present participle swingling, simple past and past participle swingled)

1. To dangle; to wave hanging.
2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To swing for pleasure.

Anagrams

• slewing, swingel

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /????.??l/
• Rhymes: -????l

Etymology 1

From Middle English scincle, from Vulgar Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *skhed- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

shingle (plural shingles)

1. A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
2. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3. A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).

Translations

Verb

shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)

1. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
2. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
3. (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.

Translations

Derived terms

• shingler
• shingly
• to hang out one's shingle

See also

• shake
• tile

Etymology 2

From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”).

Verb

shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)

1. (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
2. (transitive) To beat with a shingle.

Noun

shingle (plural shingles)

1. A punitive strap such as a belt.
2. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.

Etymology 3

Probably cognate with Norwegian Bokmål singel (“pebble(s)”), Norwegian Nynorsk singel (“pebble(s)”), and North Frisian singel (“gravel”), imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

Noun

shingle (countable and uncountable, plural shingles)

1. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
   • 1867, Matthew Arnold

     And naked shingles of the world.

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments

Anagrams

• English, Hingles, english