| 单词 | θ57682 |
| 释义 | the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating (36) brakinga1398 ribbinga1398 An act of scraping flax or hemp to remove particles of core. Cf. rib, v.1 swingling?a1500 The process of dressing flax or hemp with a swingle; scutching. swingling machine?a1500 attributive, as swingling machine, swingling operation; swingling-bat n.,swingling-knife n.,swingling-staff n. = swingle, n.1 1. swingling-board n.… tewtawing1707 scutching1733 The action of scutch, v.2; the process of beating flax stalks to get rid of the straw and prepare the fibre for hackling; the similar operation… flax-scutching1846 (see scutcher, n.1); so flax-scutching n. Subcategories:— one who (3) — implement for (24) — machine for (2) |
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