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Definition of Swipple
1. Noun. The part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swipple
1. swiple [n -S] - See also: swiple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swipple
Literary usage of Swipple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"(implement for beating flax; also, swipple, swin- gel; ... swipple «. part of a
flail; swingle [also spelt ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"swipple. The part of a flail which strikes the corn ; the blade of a flail, as
it were. Wane. ... (2) The same as swipple, ..."
3. John Burroughs, Boy and Man by Clara Barrus (1920)
"It was a straight, strong, hickory hand-staff to which hung, by means of a leathern
thong, a wooden swipple, two and a half feet long, and about three ..."
4. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"Wb. Gl. swipple, sb. That part of the flail with which the corn is actually beaten
out. ON svipa, flagellum, svipa, to swing, as in the act to strike, ..."
5. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"(implement for beating flax; also, swipple, swin- gel; ... swipple «. part of a
flail; swingle [also spelt ..."
6. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"swipple. The part of a flail which strikes the corn ; the blade of a flail, as
it were. Wane. ... (2) The same as swipple, ..."
7. John Burroughs, Boy and Man by Clara Barrus (1920)
"It was a straight, strong, hickory hand-staff to which hung, by means of a leathern
thong, a wooden swipple, two and a half feet long, and about three ..."
8. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"Wb. Gl. swipple, sb. That part of the flail with which the corn is actually beaten
out. ON svipa, flagellum, svipa, to swing, as in the act to strike, ..."
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