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Definition of scutch in English: scutchverb skʌtʃskətʃ [with object]Dress (fibrous material, especially retted flax) by beating it. 打散整理（纤维织物，尤指浸软的亚麻） it drove mills for scutching flax Example sentencesExamples - A workman takes a hank in his hand and throws it into an opening in the lining case surrounding the scutching drum.
- Finally the sheaves were beaten in a machine, in a process termed scutching.
- The damn retting, spreading, scutching and finally the sale of the finished product always gave cause for instant celebration.
- Our dinner topics that night included retting, scutching, and hackling.
- The account of breaking, scutching and hackling flax, for example, is the clearest and most informative short discussion that I have seen.
- Noted will be the northerners' scutching of UCD last weekend.
Derivativesnoun The heads of wheat were fed perpendicular to the drum through a set of convex rollers, such that the drum's scutchers knocked the grain loose. Example sentencesExamples - The scutcher is somewhat similar to the stripping drum in principle.
OriginMid 18th century: from obsolete French escoucher, from Latin excutere 'shake out'. Rhymesclutch, crutch, Dutch, hutch, inasmuch, insomuch, much, mutch, such, thrutch, touch Definition of scutch in US English: scutchverbskətʃskəCH [with object]Dress (fibrous material, especially retted flax) by beating it. 打散整理（纤维织物，尤指浸软的亚麻） it drove mills for scutching flax Example sentencesExamples - The damn retting, spreading, scutching and finally the sale of the finished product always gave cause for instant celebration.
- Noted will be the northerners' scutching of UCD last weekend.
- The account of breaking, scutching and hackling flax, for example, is the clearest and most informative short discussion that I have seen.
- Finally the sheaves were beaten in a machine, in a process termed scutching.
- Our dinner topics that night included retting, scutching, and hackling.
- A workman takes a hank in his hand and throws it into an opening in the lining case surrounding the scutching drum.
OriginMid 18th century: from obsolete French escoucher, from Latin excutere ‘shake out’. |