swingle-hand
Also 5 swyngilland, 7 Sc. svinglent, 9 Sc. swinglind.
[See prec. and hand n. 24 (?).]
= swingle n.1 1.
| c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 795/12 Hec excudiatorium, a sungyllehand. 1483 Cath. Angl. 375/1 A Swyngylhande (A. Swyngilland). 1500 Ortus Vocab., Excudia die, a swyngelhand vel excussorium. 1689 A. Haig in Russell Haigs (1881) 479 Half ane stane of heckis, rokis, spindillis, svinglinstokis, svinglentis, vinddillis. 1806 J. Hogg Poems 72 (Jam.) They laid sae fast upo' the boards, The swinglinds gaed lik horsemen's swords. 1825 J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 420 A long flat straight piece of wood, usually termed a swingle-hand or scotcher. |