scutcher

[skuhch]

scutch

[skuhch]
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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Scutcher is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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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