scutch

Plural: scutches

Verb

Verb Forms: scutched, scutching, scutches

• To separate woody fibers from flax or hemp by beating.
• To beat or whip; to drub.
• To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

Noun

• 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.
• The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
• A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
• A tuft or clump of grass.

Examples

• He had to SCUTCH through his tile rack to find a playable word.

Synonyms

scotch, scutcher, swingle

Anagrams of scutch