scutch
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Synonyms: scotch, smutch, cutch, slutch, scatch, sculch, scultch
Antonyms: scotch, smutch, cutch, slutch, scatch, sculch, scultch
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Verb
- To beat or whip; to drub.
- To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
Noun
- A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
- The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
- A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
Noun
- A tuft or clump of grass.
Noun
- Alternative form of skutch.
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