To dangle; to wave hanging.

To swing for pleasure.

To beat; to clean flax by beating it with a wooden instrument resembling a large knife, and called in New England a swingling knife. Flax is first broke and then swingled.

In wire-works, a wooden spoke fixed to the barrel that draws the wire; also, a crank.

A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for cleaning flax of the shives.