<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A swipple</li><li>A wooden instrument shaped like a large knife, for beating flax or hemp and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object)</li><li>Swingled, swinging</li><li>To clean (flax or hemp) by beating and scraping with a swingle.</li></ul>