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.
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; cf.
quash)
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