Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to swingle
Participle: swingled
Gerund: swingling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | swingle |
| you | swingle |
| he;she;it | swingles |
| we | swingle |
| you | swingle |
| they | swingle |
Perfect
| I | have swingled |
| you | have swingled |
| he;she;it | has swingled |
| we | have swingled |
| you | have swingled |
| they | have swingled |
Past
| I | swingled |
| you | swingled |
| he;she;it | swingled |
| we | swingled |
| you | swingled |
| they | swingled |
Pluperfect
| I | had swingled |
| you | had swingled |
| he;she;it | had swingled |
| we | had swingled |
| you | had swingled |
| they | had swingled |
Future
| I | will swingle |
| you | will swingle |
| he;she;it | will swingle |
| we | will swingle |
| you | will swingle |
| they | will swingle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have swingled |
| you | will have swingled |
| he;she;it | will have swingled |
| we | will have swingled |
| you | will have swingled |
| they | will have swingled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | swingle |
| you | swingle |
| he;she;it | swingle |
| we | swingle |
| you | swingle |
| they | swingle |
Perfect
| I | have swingled |
| you | have swingled |
| he;she;it | have swingled |
| we | have swingled |
| you | have swingled |
| they | have swingled |
Imperfect
| I | swingled |
| you | swingled |
| he;she;it | swingled |
| we | swingled |
| you | swingled |
| they | swingled |
Pluperfect
| I | had swingled |
| you | had swingled |
| he;she;it | had swingled |
| we | had swingled |
| you | had swingled |
| they | had swingled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would swingle |
| you | would swingle |
| he;she;it | would swingle |
| we | would swingle |
| you | would swingle |
| they | would swingle |
Perfect
| I | would have swingled |
| you | would have swingled |
| he;she;it | would have swingled |
| we | would have swingled |
| you | would have swingled |
| they | would have swingled |
Imperative
| you | swingle |
| we | Let's swingle |
| you | swingle |
Verbs conjugated like 'swingle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'swingle'
shingle,
single,
swiggle,
swindle,
wingle,
bingle,
cringle,
dwindle,
gingle,
ingle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is 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.
2. The verb is from Middle English swingelen, from the noun. Related to Middle Dutch swingelen, swengelen.
Sample Sentences
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Now after you have swingled your Hempe and Flaxe ouer once, you shall take and shake up the refuse stuffe, which you beate from the same seuerally, and not only it, but the tops and knots, and halfe brak't buns which fall from the brake also, and drying them againe cause them to bee very well thresht with flayles, and then mixing them with th refuse which fell from the swingle tree, dresse them all well with threshing and shaking, till the buns be cleane driuen out of them; [1623, Gervase Markham, Country Contentments, or The approued Booke called the English Hous-wife, page 168:]
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The instruments necessary to swingle flax are, a tressel, and a swingle. [1764, Duhamel du Monceau, The Elements of Agriculture - Volume 2, page 174:]
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The first operation in dressing flax is to swingle or beat it, in order to detach it from the harle or skimps. [1858, John Harland, editor, The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster:]
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Just what he said, they neither of them knew. For hearing is a sense made blunt by fright; But then their ears were flushed, and burned and tingled, As if they'd been by some sharp weapon swingled. [1867, Horatius Flaccus, The Vision of Judgment: Or The South Church:]
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She returned to her swingling and added reflectively : " That's what made me leave in the first place, to keep out of harm's way. […]". [1976, Andriĭ Vasylʹovych Holovko, The Weeds: A Novel, page 28:]
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Later she “spread, rotted, broke, swingled, and hacked” the weeds, twisting together several strands of fiber, and she used these strands to weave a frail fabric on a home-built loom. [2021, Helen D. Irvin, Women in Kentucky:]