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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scutcher, swingle
Antonyms: none provided
The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
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Usage: countable
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Synonyms: scotch
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A tuft or clump of grass.
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Alternative form of skutch.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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To beat or whip; to drub.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
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To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2005, John Martin, Warren Leonard, David Stamp, and Richard Waldren, Principles of Field Crop Production (4th Edition), section 32.10 “Processing Fiber Flax”, the title of subsection 32.10.3 “Scutching”.
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From Middle English *scucchen, from Anglo-Norman escucher, from Vulgar Latin *excuticāre.
From Irish.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
мъналка
(mǎnalka)
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Catalan:
espadadora
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Dutch:
zwingel
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Finnish:
vidin
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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French:
écang
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Galician:
tasca
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Galician:
espadela
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Galician:
tascón
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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German:
Flachsschwinge
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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German:
Hanfschwinge
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Italian:
maciulla
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Italian:
scotola
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Polish:
klepaczka
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Russian:
трепа́ло
(trepálo)
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Spanish:
espadilla
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Swedish:
skäktkniv
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Swedish:
skäkta
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Welsh:
ffust lin
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Welsh:
llinffust
— knife-shaped tool used to separate woody fiber from flax or hemp
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Galician:
tasco
— refuse of scutched flax
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Māori:
kaku
— refuse of scutched flax
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Māori:
kakukaku
— refuse of scutched flax
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Bulgarian:
чукам
(čukam)
— beat or flog
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Bulgarian:
мъна
(mǎna)
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Dutch:
zwingelen
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Finnish:
vitoa
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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French:
écanguer
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Galician:
tascar
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Galician:
espadelar
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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German:
schwingen
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Italian:
scotolare
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Lithuanian:
brukti
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Māori:
hāro
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Māori:
parahuhu
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Russian:
трепа́ть
(trepátʹ)
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Spanish:
tascar
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Swedish:
skäkta
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
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Welsh:
ffustio
— to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre
