scutch
English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman escucher, from Vulgar Latin *excuticāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) To beat or whip; to drub.
- To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
- 2005, John Martin, Warren Leonard, David Stamp, and Richard Waldren, Principles of Field Crop Production (4th Edition), section 32.10 “Processing Fiber Flax”, the title of subsection 32.10.3 “Scutching”.
- 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
- His prey was more often the over-scutched huswives, the threepenny whores with well-whipped backs, both from the beadle and their own hot-blooded clients.
Translations
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- Dutch: zwingelen (nl)
- French: écanguer (fr)
- Galician: tascar, espadelar (gl)
- German: schwingen (de)
- Italian: scotolare
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Lithuanian: brukti (flax)
- Maori: parahuhu
- Russian: трепа́ть (ru) (trepátʹ)
Noun
scutch (plural scutches)
- An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them.
- The woody fibre of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
- Cuthbert Bede
- The smoke of the burning scutch.
- Cuthbert Bede
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scutch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish.
Noun
scutch (plural scutches)
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