Schent, 258, destroyed; AS. _scendan_.

Stounde, 4, short time.

Strycke, 514, "_Strike of Flax_, is as much as is heckled at one
Handful." Phillips.

Swyngylle, 216, "Swingle-Staff, a Stick to beat Flax with," Phil.; AS.
_swingele_, a whip, lash. "To _swingle_, to beat; a Term among
Flax-dressers." Phillips. Though Randle Holme, Bk. III., ch. viii.
No. xxxiii., gives the _Swingle-Tree_ of a Coach-Pole (these are
made of wood, and are fastened by Iron hooks, stables (_sic_) chains
and pinns to the Coach-pole, to the which Horses are fastened by
their Harnish when there is more then two to draw the Coach), yet at
Chap, vi., § iv., p. 285, col. 1, he says, "He beareth Sable, a
_Swingle_ Hand erected, Surmounting of a _Swingle_ Foot, Or. This is
a Wooden Instrument made like a Fauchion, with an hole cut in the
top of it, to hold it by: It is used for the clearing of Hemp and
Flax from the large broken Stalks or *Shoves, by the help of the
said _Swingle_ Foot, which it is hung upon, which said Stalks being
first broken, bruised, and cut into shivers by a Brake.
S. 3, such erected in Fesse O. born by _Flaxlowe_.
S. 3, such in Pale A., born by _Swingler_."
(A drawing is given by Holme, No. 4, on the plate opposite p. 285.)
"_Swingowing_ is the beating off the bruised inward stalk of the Hemp
or Flax, from the outward pill, which as (_sic_) the Hemp or Flax,
p. 106, col. 2.
_Spinning_ is to twist the Flax hairs into Yarn or Thrid. _Reeling_
is to wind the Yarn of the Wheel Spool on a Reel," p. 107, Col. 2.