swiple
- a variation of swipple.
Example Sentences
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Both parts, the staff or handle, and the swingle or swiple, were carefully shaped from well-chosen wood, to be joined together later by an eelskin or leather strap.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
And my uniform-case, of which he never let go, described a very beautiful parabola, and then came down upon the weigh-bridge, as the swiple of an uplifted flail comes down upon grain….
From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford
