SCUTCH
- to dress (flax) by beating
- to dress (brick or stone); scotch
- device for scutching flax fiber
- small picklike tool with two cutting edges for trimming brick
- to separate the woody fiber from by beating [v SCUTCHED, SCUTCHES, SCUTCHING]
- to separate the woody fibre by beating, also SWINGLE [v -ED, -ING, -ES]