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adj
Of raw silk: deprived of its silk-glue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
A swipple; the part of a flail that strikes the grain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from French souple; a doublet of supple.
Borrowed from Middle Scots sowpill, from Middle English swepels, from swepen + -els; a doublet of swipple.
