(v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
(v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.
(n.) A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.
(n.) The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concentrations of airborne dust and bacteria were determined in 12 flax scutching mills and in two milk processing plants in Normandy, France.
Swingle
Definition:
(v. i.) To dangle; to wave hanging.
(v. i.) To swing for pleasure.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
(n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.
Example Sentences:
(1) She had a horrible taste in men, or was incredibly unlucky,” said Swingle.
(2) He was a homicidal Energiser Bunny,” said Swingle.
(3) The effect is measured following sacrifice of the animal by weighing either the excised ear (Tonelli et al., 1965; Glenn et al., 1978; Swingle et al., 1981; Soliman et al., 1983; Mantione and Rodriguez 1990) or a plug taken from the ear (Tubaro et al., 1985; Davis et al., 1989a; Davis et al., 1989b).
(4) It’s going to be that simple.” Swingle went on: “I don’t think you want to torture the person just because he tortured other people himself.
(5) Now an attorney practising in Colorado, Swingle was the county prosecutor who took Bucklew to trial for murder.
(6) Reactions were observed to extracts of: Rosa hybrida Hort (7); Canangium odoratum Baill (5); Citrus aurantifolia Swingle (4); Jasminum sambac Ait (2).
(7) But I think defence lawyers are paid to look for excuses, and they’re trying to find excuses to delay the execution, and it’s just silly.” Pruitt, who was just 21 when kidnapped by Bucklew, once promised that she would attend his execution to ensure that her face was the last thing he saw, said Swingle.
(8) I was a prosecutor for 30 years and he was the most evil person I ever prosecuted,” said Swingle.
(9) That did not turn out to be the case.” Morley Swingle, however, does not care.
(10) He was a pure sociopath with no regard for other people.” Bucklew violently attacked Pruitt weeks before the day of the killing, Swingle pointed out, and later attacked her parents with a hammer after briefly escaping from the county jail three months after his arrest.