Meaning & use
scutch
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To beat or scrape flax, cotton, or a similar fiber in order to separate and remove the coarse outer parts.
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Workers used wooden blades to scutch the flax stalks before spinning.
The old mill still has a scutching machine used to clean raw cotton.
A note on using this word
"Scutch" survives mainly in textile history and in the tool name "scutching knife," used to prepare flax for linen production.
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swinglebeat
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Another way to use it
2. noun
a tool used for beating and cleaning flax or cotton fibers
He sharpened the scutch before the harvest began.
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