English: metonymic occupational name for a worker in the linen
or hemp industry, from Middle English swingle ‘swingle’, a
wooden implement used for beating flax or hemp (Middle Dutch
swinghel, from the verb ‘to swing’).Possibly an
Americanized spelling of German Zwingel, a topographic name
from Middle High German zwingel ‘citadel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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