swingling

Some of the door locks have been adjusted tight-as-hell to keep the unlocked door from swingling open on a tope or bad curve.

Bus potties 2003

Women, breaking and swingling this necessary Article.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 February 1777 1963

I helped with the breaking and swingling, until all the harsh part of the stalk was gone, and ran it through the hatcheling comb to take out the short fibers.

The Blue Cat of Castle Town 1949

After that he would swingle it over a swingling-board, with a long knife; then he made it into hands of flax.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

How clearly I remember Father working with it in the bright, sharp March days, breaking it, then swingling it with a long wooden sword-like tool over the end of an upright board fixed at the base in a heavy block.

My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922

Many farm implements other than those already named were made, and many portions of tools and implements; among them were shovels, swingling-knives, sled-neaps, stanchions, handles for spades and bill-hooks, rake-stales, fork-stales, flails.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

The flax-dresser with the shives, fibres, and dirt of flax covering his garments, and his face begrimed with flax-dirt has disappeared; the noise of his brake and swingling knife has ended, and the boys no longer make bonfires of his swingling tow.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

Then it was scutched or swingled with a swingling block and knife, to take out any small particles of bark that might adhere.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

How clearly I remember Father working with it in the bright, sharp March days, breaking it, then swingling it with a long wooden sword-like tool over the end of an upright board fixed at the base in a heavy block.

My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879

But when has any one seen a crackle, or a swingling-knife, or a hetchel, or a distaff, and where can one get some tow for strings or for gun-wadding, or some swingling-tow for a bonfire?

In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879