What is to clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch called?
swingle — To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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