SCUTCH

Definitions: SCUTCH

SCUTCH

Noun

1. The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.

2. A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.

Transitive verb

1. To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

2. To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

3. To beat or whip; to drub.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Industry

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: SCUTCH

Expression using "SCUTCH": scutch grass. Additional references.

Albanian

zhveshës pambuku, zhvesh (bare, defoliate, denude, disarray, dismantle, disrobe, divest, doff, Hull, lay off, remove, shed, strip, strip naked, unclothe, undress), çekiç gurëxhiu. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حلج (pare). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чукам (drive, hammer, knap, knock, rattle), мъналка (brake, scutcher, swingle), мъна (swingle). (various references)

Danish

murerhammer (cutting-hammer). (various references)

Dutch

hamer voor tegelzetter (cutting-hammer). (various references)

French

teiller. (various references)

German

Maurerhammer (cutting-hammer), Fliesenhammer (cutting-hammer), Bruchsteinhammer (cutting-hammer). (various references)

Greek 

καθαρίζω κτυπών, σφυρί κτιστού, μύλος με μαχαίρια (cutting-hammer). (various references)

Hungarian

tilolási hulladék, tilol (swingle). (various references)

Italian

martellina (burr, chipping hammer, cutting-hammer, pick hammer, welder's hammer). (various references)

Manx

scuitchal (flagellate, lash, scourge, slash, slashing, switch, whip, whip a person, whisk). (various references)

Pig Latin

utchscay

Portuguese

tomento, gramadeira (hackle, kill-devil, scutcher), grama (dog's meat, gram, grama, gramma, gramme, grass, humor, humour, lawn), estopa (bagging, cotton waste, hards, oak-wart, tow, waste), espadelar (deckle, hackle, heckle, swingle), bater (bang, bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, belt, biff, Bob, boot, bop, brandish, chastise, churn, clap, club, curl, curry, deckle, doddered, flap, fling, flog, forged, form, froth, hit, hunt down, jab, knead, knock, Lama, lap, lick, plash, pulsate, pulse, ram, slap, slog, sound, splash, stir, strike, swing, thrash, thresh, to peen, to whip, type, wave, whack, whip, whirl, whisk, worst), batedor (bat, batsman, beater, coiner, cylinder, drum, escort, feeler, fire beater, fire broom, fire flail, fire swatter, fireflapper, knocker, picker, scout, scutcher, Stamper, stirrer, swatter, thrasher, threshing drum, tracker, walloper, whisk, willey). (various references)

Romanian

volant (fly-wheel), meliţa (comb, Peel, swingle). (various references)

Russian 

трепать лен, костра, кострика (chaff). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trlica (scutcher), obijati (knock off, rob), nabijati (bulge, impale, jam, stuff). (various references)

Spanish

mazo (beater, beetle, club, cutting-hammer, gavel, harness, heavy rapping hammer, mace, mall, mallet, maul, mawl, plunger, pounder, stamper), agramar (brake), agramadera (brake, scutcher). (various references)

Turkish

pamuk atma makinesi, ditmek (heckle, scribble, tease), ditme makinesi (scribbler), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), döverek temizlemek, atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void). (various references)

Ukranian 

тіпати льон, тіпалка (beater, brake), костриця (chaff), обмолочувати. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "SCUTCH": scutched, scutcheon, scutcheons, scutcher, scutchers, scutches, scutching. (additional references)

Words containing "SCUTCH": escutcheon, escutcheons. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cutch.

-2 letters: cuts, huts, scut, shut, such, thus, tush.

-3 letters: cut, hut, uts.

-4 letters: sh, uh, us, ut.

+1 letter: cutches, succoth.

+2 letters: catchups, catechus, clutches, cockshut, crutches, cultches, scutched, scutcher, scutches.

+3 letters: checkouts, cockshuts, scutcheon, scutchers, scutching, succotash.

+4 letters: cartouches, churchiest, crunchiest, cutcheries, escutcheon, outcatches, outcoaches, scutcheons, touchbacks, zucchettos.

+5 letters: caoutchoucs, catechumens, churchliest, escutcheons, eucharistic, shuttlecock, succotashes.

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