Lexicographical Neighbors of Swingles
Literary usage of Swingles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronicles of Bow Street Police-office: With an Account of the Magistrates by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1888)
"The smugglers were armed with swords, pistols, and instruments called ' swingles,'
which are made like flails, and with which they can knock people's brains ..."
2. A Voyage from Southampton to Cape Town, in the Union Company's Mail Steamer by Charles Chapman (1872)
"... first darting forward till the swingles of the other horses touched his front
legs, then backwards till his own swingles touched his hind legs; ..."
3. Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset (1891)
"The smugglers were armed with swords, pistols, and instruments called ' swingles,'
which are made like flails, and with which they can knock people's brains ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The invitation to ~W;his Disputation shows the Great Council for the first time
definitely on -swingles side ; and each subsequent stage of the Swiss ..."
5. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"... it is so apt to crack, that little use can be made of it, except for handles
for tools, teeth for hay-rakes, swingles for flails, and walking-sticks. ..."
6. The Universal Traveller: Designed to Introduce Readers at Home to an by Charles Augustus Goodrich (1836)
"... the sheaves against a post or barrel; but it is commonly thrashed on straw
mats in the open air, by means of flails with three swingles. ..."
7. The History of Boscawen and Webster [N.H.] from 1733 to 1878 by Charles Carleton Coffin (1878)
"Later in the winter, in February and March, he breaks and swingles the flax.
The flax-breaker—the instrument by which the woody part of the plant is broken ..."
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