[skuhch] 
| 1. | to dress (flax) by beating. |
| 2. | to dress (brick or stone); scotch. |
| 3. | Also called scutcher. a device for scutching flax fiber. |
| 4. | Also, scotch. a small picklike tool with two cutting edges for trimming brick. |
| scutch (skŭch) tr.v. scutched, scutch·ing, scutch·es To separate the valuable fibers of (flax, for example) from the woody parts by beating. n. An implement used for scutching. [Obsolete French escoucher, from Anglo-Norman escucher, from Vulgar Latin *excuticāre, frequentative of Latin excutere, to shake out : ex-, ex- + quatere, to shake; see kwēt- in Indo-European roots.] scutch'er n. |
