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Swipple. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Swipple Also 5 swepelles, swepyl, swipylle, 7 sweaple, 7–9 swiple, 9 Sc. swoople, swupple. See also SUPPLE sb.1 [prob. orig. f. swēp-, SWEEP v. or swip-, SWIP v. + instrumental suffix -ELS. Cf. LG. swepelbessen broom with which chaff is swept up.]

1   † 1.  A besom, mop. Obs.

2 14[?].  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 616/12. Tersorium, a swepelles (a malkyn).

3   2.  The part of a flail that strikes the grain in thrashing.

4 a. 1450.  Tourn. Tottenham, 167. Of sum were the hedys brokyn … Wyth swyppyng of swepyls [v.r. swipylles].

5 1609.  Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 184. For hollyn swipples, vijd. Ibid. (1619), 239. Twelve swipples.

6 1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 333/1. The Swiple [of a Flail or Threshal is] that part is striketh out the Corn.

7 1824.  Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., s.v. Barnman’s-jig, The swoople on the end of the hand-staff.

8 1902.  A. Thomson, Lauder & Lauderdale, xxiii. 261. An early working model of the threshing mill consisted of a series of flails or swiples … dangerous to approach.

9 1907.  M. C. F. Morris, Nunburnholme, 249. The sound of the swipple on the barn floor was heard every working day all through the winter.

10   † 3.  app. A swivel. Obs.

11 1691.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2632/4. A Gold Japanned Watch, with a Gold Chain, and 3 Sweaples.

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