English Dictionary

swingling

名詞

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(countable, uncountable) The act or process of beating flax in order to extract the fibres.

日本語の意味

亜麻を打って繊維を抽出する行為や過程

The swingling of the flax took all morning as the villagers beat the stalks to free the fibers.

亜麻のスカッチング（繊維を取り出すための打ち作業）は午前中いっぱいかかり、村人たちは茎を叩いて繊維を分離した。

意味（1）

(countable, uncountable) The act or process of beating flax in order to extract the fibres.

[…] then lay over these sticks, either a clean old blanket, or, if that be not at hand, a quantity of the swinglings of flax […]

swinglings （ plural ）