Two stout sticks, the handstaff and the Swingle, attached to each other by a strong band of gut, constitute its simple mechanism.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
The wheat having been strewn on the barn floor, the labourer held the handstaff in both hands, swung it over his head, and brought the Swingle down horizontally on to the heads of ripe corn.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
In the top of this, enters the bent end of a lever, of about twelve or fifteen feet long, with a Swingle-tree at the other end.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson