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swingel

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
swingel, swingell, e; and swingel[l]e, an ; f.
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literal
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a stripe, stroke
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  • Hine man þreáge mid teartran steóre, ðæt is, him síge on swin-gella wracu ( verberum vindicta). Gif hé þurh ða swingella ne biþ geriht . . . ,

    • R. Ben. 52, 6-8
      • .

  • Mid teartum swingellum

    acribus verberibus,

    • 54, 4.

  • Geswencte on bendum and on swingelum (swinglurn, MSS. C. V. ) for earn sóþan geleáfan,

      Homl. Skt. i. 5, 27.

  • Swinglum,

    • L. In. 48
      • ;
    • Th. i. 132, 9, MSS. B. H.

  • Wé witun ðé nellan on belǽdan swincgla us

    inferre plagas nobis,

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 18, 24.
a scourging, whipping, flogging
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  • Gif hwá his hýde forwyrce and cirican geierne sié him sió swingelle (swingle,

    • MS. B.
    ) forgifen

    if any one incur the punishment of flogging, and run to a church, let the flogging be remitted to him,

    • L. In. 5
      • ;
    • Th. i. 104, 16.

  • Hyne Drihten þreáde mid þearlwýslícere swingle. Ð á eode hé tó ðam bysceope . . . and hym eówde ða lǽla ðæra(-e?) swingellan ðe hé from Dryhtne onféng,

    • Shrn. 98, 14-18.

  • Hé wénde ðæt hé mid swinglan (verberibus) sceolde ða ánrédnesse his heortan ánescian . . . Hé hine mid tintregum and mid swinglan oferswíþan ne mihte,

    • Bd. 1. 7
      • ;
    • S. 477, 43-478, 2.

  • Hié hine swingaþ . . . and æfter ðære swinglan hié hine ofsleáþ.

    • Blickl. Homl. 15, 11.

  • Hé líchamlíce wrace mid swingelle þolige

    vindicte corporali subdatur,

    • R. Ben. 48, 12.

  • Ðonne áh se teónd áne swingellan (swingelan,

    • MSS. B. H.
    ) æt him ( the wíteþeów),

    • L. In. 48
      • ;
    • Th. i. 132, 9.

  • Gif hwylc wíf hire wífman swingþ and heó þurh ða swingle wyrð deád

    si mulier aliqua ancillam suam flagellis verberaverit, et ex illa verberatione moriatur,

    • L. Ecg. P. ii. 4
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 184, 1.

  • Hé hire swingele behét.

    • Homl. Skt. i. 9, 69.
a scourge, rod, whip
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  • Swinela

    palmarum,

    • Hpt. Gl. 510, 40.
a swingle, a stick to beat flax
[cf.
a swiuglestok pessel
,
the swingle le pesselin
,
to swingle the flax estonger vostre lyn, Wrt. Voc. i. 152, 39-44.
A swyngelstok excussorium, excudia,
  • Wülck. Gl. 581, 30: studia, 614, 1.
A swyndyl-stoc exculidium, a swyndilland excudium, 696, 7, 8.
I bete and swyn-gylle flax, Rel. Ant. ii. 197, 34.
See also Cath. Angl. 374-5 and the notes there.
Cf.
Du. zwingelen to beat flax.
Halliwell gives swingel as a name in several dialects for the part of the flail that strikes the corn, and batillus is translated by a belle clapere vel swyngell, Wülck. 567, 39
]
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  • Ic ða swingle (but spinle, MS. O. ; and the Latin text is proiiciens quam gestabam colum) mé fram áwearp, ðe ic seldon gewunode on handa to hæbbene,

    • Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 367.
figurative, chastisement, affliction
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  • Wé scylen beón on ðisse ælðeódignesse útane beheáwene mid suingellan . . . ðætte suá hwæt suá nú on ús unnytes sié ðætte ðæt áceorfe sió suingelle from ús

    nunc foris per flagella tundimur . . . quatenus quid-quid in nobis est superfluum, modo percussio resecet.

    • Past. 36
      • ;
    • Swt. 253, 18-22.

  • Ðæt sár ðære suingellan (swingellan,

    • Cott. MSS.
    ) ðissa woruld-broca.

    • Swt. 259, 2.

  • Balthasar næs gemyndig his fæder swingle.

    • Homl. Th. ii. 434, 27.

  • Ða ðe him ondrǽdaþ Godes swingellan . . . ða ðe suá áheardode beóþ ðæt hié mon mid nánre swingellan gebétan ne mæg,

    • Past. 37
      • ;
    • Swt. 263, 1-9.

  • Ic eom nú tó swingellan gearu

    ego in flagella paratus sum,

    • Ps. Th. 37, 17.

  • Manifealde synt synfulra manna swingelan,

    • 31, 12.

  • Swingellan,

    • 34, 15.

  • Swyngla,

    • Ps. Spl. 72, 5.

  • Swinla

    flagra,

    • Hpt. Gl. 527, 24.

  • On swingelum

    in verberibus,

    • Ps. Spl. 88, 32 : Homl. Th. i. 578, 25.

  • Swinglum,

    • Ps. Th. 88, 29.

  • God ðurh mislíce swingla his folces synna gehǽlþ,

    • Homl. Th. i. 472, 12.
Similar entries
v. wind-swingla, and preceding word,
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v.  swincgel.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “swingel.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/29829.

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