Usually means: Separate fibers from citrus bark.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word swingle:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. swingle: Merriam-Webster
  2. swingle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swingle: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Swingle, swingle: Wordnik
  5. Swingle, swingle: Wiktionary
  6. swingle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. swingle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. swingle: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. swingle: Dictionary.com
  10. swingle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Swingle (tool), Swingle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Swingle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. swingle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Swingle: Rhymezone
  15. Swingle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. swingle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. swingle: FreeDictionary.org
  18. swingle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swingle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See swingled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Swingle)

noun:  (textiles) An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch.
noun:  The swinging part of a flail, especially that which is used on the grain in threshing; the swipple.
verb:  (transitive) To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
verb:  To dangle; to wave hanging.
verb:  (obsolete, UK, dialect) To swing for pleasure.
noun:  A surname.

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