verb (used with object)
1.
to dress (flax) by beating.
2.
to dress (brick or stone); scotch.
noun
3.
Also called scutch·er. a device for scutching flax fiber.
4.
Also, scotch. a small picklike tool with two cutting edges for trimming brick.
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| —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 | |
| scutch2 (skʌtʃ) | |
| —vb | |
| dialect (Northern English) to strike with an open hand | |
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