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scutch

[skuhch]

verb (used with object)

to dress (flax) by beating.

to dress (brick or stone); scotch.

noun

Also called scutch·er. a device for scutching flax fiber.

Also, scotch. a small picklike tool with two cutting edges for trimming brick.

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Origin:
1680–90; < Middle French *escoucher (French écoucher) to beat flax < Vulgar Latin *excuticāre, for Latin excutere (ex- ex-¹ + -cutere, combining form of quatere to shatter; compare quash)

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scutch¹ (skʌtʃ)

—vb
1.	(tr) to separate the fibres from the woody part of (flax) by pounding

—n
2.	Also called: scutcher the tool used for this

[C18: from obsolete French escoucher, from Vulgar Latin excuticāre (unattested) to beat out, from Latin ex-¹ + quatere to shake]

scutch² (skʌtʃ)

—vb
	dialect (Northern English) to strike with an open hand

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