英语释义
1. a wooden instrument like a large knife that is about two feet long, has one thin edge, and is used for beating and cleaning flax scutcher
2. the swiple of a flail
3. a cudgel resembling a flail
4. a lever resembling a spoke and used for turning the barrel in wire drawing or the roller of a plate press
5. to clean by beating with a swingle separate away the coarse and woody parts of scutch