SWINGLE
\swˈɪŋɡə͡l], \swˈɪŋɡəl], \s_w_ˈɪ_ŋ_ɡ_əl]\
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To swing for pleasure.
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To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.
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To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
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By James Champlin Fernald
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Procollagen Proline Dioxygenase
- mixed-function oxygenase that catalyzes hydroxylation prolyl-glycyl-containing-peptide, usually in protocollagen, hydroxyprolylglycyl-peptide. The enzyme utilizes molecular oxygen with a concomitant oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoglutarate to succinate. EC 1.14.11.2.