swing knife

A wooden sword 18 to 24 inches long, and 8 to 10 inches broad, used to scrape the woody portion from flax, a handful of which hangs over a groove in a standing-board known as the swing-stock. swing-pan, s. Sugar-making: A hinged sugar-pan with a spout. swing-plow, s. 1. A turn-wrest plow. 2. A plow without a gauge-wheel.