scutchn.¹

Brit.

/skʌtʃ/, U.S.

/skətʃ/

Etymology: < scutch v.¹

Now chiefly dialect.

A stroke with a stick or whip.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > [noun] > stroke with specific blunt weapon

scutch1611

jordan1699

cut1725

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something pliant

lashc1330

lashingc1400

jerking1552

jerk1555

whipping1577

slive1589

whissc1590

scutch1611

scutching1611

switchinga1640

cut1787

sliver1806

switch1809

welt1863

score1882

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fessée, a scutch on the breech, a lash on the buttocks.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Singlet, a scutch,..or ierke with a rod, &c.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scutchn.²

Brit.

/skʌtʃ/, U.S.

/skətʃ/

Forms: Also 1700s skutch, 1800s scotch.

Etymology: < Old French escouche (15th cent.; modern French écouche). The remarkable correspondence of the Old French word with the modern Norwegian synonym skoka suggests that it may be of Scandinavian origin. By Hatzfeld & Darmesteter, however, it is regarded as < *escoucher , escousser to scutch, thrash, and this is identified with escousser to shake < popular Latin *excussāre (compare excuss v.).

1. = scutcher n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > beating or scraping > implement for

scutcher1766

scutchc1791

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > implement for

swinglec1325

swingle-stickc1325

swingle-stockc1340

swingle-wandc1340

brakec1450

swingle-hand1483

swindlehanda1500

swingletree?a1500

swingling-stock?a1500

swingle-foot1500

swingling-bat1552

tow-beetle1601

tewtaw1652

swingle-staff1664

swingle-head1677

cataract1693

hemp-beatera1726

hand brake1766

scutcher1766

scutchc1791

swingling-board1819

swingling-hand1825

bott-hammer1839

swingling-post1902

c1791 Encycl. Brit. VII. 291/2 Common flax; which from the skutch proceeds to the heckle.

1836 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. I. 510 Arms to which are attached scotches revolving within a cylindrical casing.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 702/2 An instrument somewhat resembling a curry-comb, and called a hand-scutch.

1891 Cent. Dict. at Scutcher The fluted rollers b, b′, which seize it and present it to the scutches or beaters, c.

2. ‘One of the pieces of wood which in a thrashing mill beats out the grain’ (Jamieson). Cf. scutcher n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > machine or device for > part of

scutcher1797

scutch1805

throat1840

1805 Gen. View Agric. E. Lothian (Board of Agric.) 77 The purpose of separating the grain from the straw might be accomplished..by skutches acting upon the sheaves by their velocity, and beating out the grain.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scutchn.³

Brit.

/skʌtʃ/, U.S.

/skətʃ/

Etymology: Variant of squitch n., altered form of quitch n.¹

dialect.

1. = quitch n.¹ Chiefly in combination scutch-grass in the same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > grasses perceived as weeds > [noun] > couch-grass

quitcheOE

quicka1400

quicken?c1425

couch-grass1578

twitch1588

twitch grass1588

dog grass1597

sea dog's grass1597

quick grass1617

couch1637

wheat-grass1668

scutch1686

quickenings1762

quicken grass1771

spear-grass1784

squitch1785

witchgrass1790

felt1794

dog-wheat1796

creeping wheat1819

quack1822

switch-grass1840

couch-wheat1884

1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 957 It has turned the Bog into a green sod, with a very fine scutch grass on it.

1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 lxx. 307 It is only fit for wet, or bog lands, growing from every joint, like the scutch, or couch grass.

1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times II. 105 What he could not lay down properly, he suffered nature to lay down for him with scutch grass, thistles and docks.

a1889 ‘C. Bede’ in Webster's Dict. (1897) The smoke of the burning scutch.

Categories »

a. dialect. Rubbish (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).

b. Glue-making. (See quot. 1883.)

ΚΠ

1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 301/2 The matter left in the pans after boiling is termed ‘scutch’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scutchn.⁴

Brit.

/skʌtʃ/, U.S.

/skətʃ/

Forms: Also 2000s scotch.

Etymology: < scutch v.³

Building.

A cutting tool resembling a two-ended adze or pick, used for roughly dressing the cut surface of a brick or stone, and also for cutting bricks.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > adze > [noun] > for dressing stone

hack hammer1377

hacking hammer1398

scutch1885

1885 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) 304 Scutch,..a bricklayer's hammer with two faces for cutting bricks.

1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 521/2 After the bolster and club hammer have removed the portion of the brick, the scutch, really a small axe, is used to hack off the rough parts.

1936 Archit. Rev. 79 240/4 (caption) The brick-saw with its entwined strands of wire, used for cutting the soffit lines to allow the scutch or brick-axe..to enter without splitting the brick.

1975 C. M. Harris Dict. Archit. 430/1 Scutch, scotch, a bricklayer's tool, with a cutting edge on each side, for cutting, trimming, and dressing brick or stone.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scutchv.¹

Brit.

/skʌtʃ/, U.S.

/skətʃ/

Forms: Also 1700s–1800s skutch.

Etymology: Of somewhat uncertain etymology. Commonly assumed to be a transferred use of scutch v.², which, though later in our quots., must from its etymology have existed at least from the 15th cent. This is not impossible (compare thresh v.), but more probably the present verb is an independent onomatopoeic formation: compare scotch v.¹

Now chiefly dialect.

transitive. To strike with a stick or whip, to slash, switch. Also intransitive to strike at.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > strike with specific blunt weapon [verb (transitive)]

mellc1440

wapper1481

bebat1565

rib-roast1570

batonc1580

flail1582

club1593

bastonate1596

cudgel1598

rib-baste1598

shrub1599

truncheon1600

cut1607

scutch1611

macea1634

batoon1683

towel1705

quarterstaff1709

pole1728

handspike1836

blackjack1847

bludgeon1868

sandbag1887

cosh1922

sap1926

pistol-whip1930

knuckle-dust1962

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something pliant

yarka1529

jerk1550

whissa1578

cut1607

scutch1611

slash1660

lashc1694

whip1699

switch1832

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Singler,..also, to switch,.. scutch, or scourge with a rod.

1643 M. Z. B. Battel Newburne 12 in D. Laing Var. Pieces Fugitive Sc. Poetry (1853) 2nd Ser. The Scots them scutcht both upon back and shoulder.

a1652 R. Brome City Wit i. i. sig. A6, in Five New Playes (1653) What Scold hath scutch'd thy skonce.

1775 ‘T. Bobbin’ Misc. Wks. 57 Shou'd they naw be..scutcht with' seme Rod wi'ther Clarks?

1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. Scutch, to strike with a thin switch, which is often done to snakes by cruel boys.

1867 B. Brierley Daisy Nook Sketches 53 He skutcht at him wi' his whip.

1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 204 The master should always give his orders in an even, calm voice, devoid of passion, so that the dog cannot tell from his tone whether he is to be scutched or not.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scutchv.²

Brit.

/skʌtʃ/, U.S.

/skətʃ/

Forms: Also skutch.

Etymology: < Old French *escoucher, escousser: see scutch n.²

1. transitive. To dress (fibrous material, flax, hemp, cotton, silk, wool) by beating.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > beat, hammer, or pound

peal1611

tewa1642

scutch1733

beat1753

pun1838

spat1890

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [verb (transitive)] > other

dizen1530

dize1673

scutch1733

sliver1796

batch1880

woollenize1890

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > treat or process flax, hemp, or jute [verb (transitive)] > beat

swinglec1325

braya1398

riba1398

shive1483

bunch1601

tewtaw1601

rough-dress1622

towtaw1652

scutch1733

1733 [implied in: P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 159 There must be at every Mill, besides the Boys that attend the breaking and scutching of the Mill, at least, two or three skilful Flax-dressers. (at scutching n.²)].

1763 in Scottish Forfeited Estates Papers (1909) 225 A person skilled in raising, breaking, scutching and heckling of lint.

1812 W. Scott Let. 23 Jan. (1932) III. 73 A heckle is the many-tooth'd implement with which hemp is broken and scutch'd.

1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. v. 159 When the heads of flax are ready for working, they are ‘scutched’ out at the ends.

1880 O. Crawfurd Portugal 194 Some portion of the flax..is broken and skutched by hand.

1884 Spectator 26 Apr. 548 Wool must be scutched to be worn.

absolute.1808 Ann. Reg., Charac. 101 To try whether any improvement can be made in the mode of skutching.1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 345 Indeed, each machine not only beats, scutches, but blows.

2. Tanning. (See quot. 1688.)

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > other processes

curry14..

shave1467

dress1511

slaughter1603

raise1607

scutch1688

chamois1728

braya1835

break1842

fellmonger1843

fire-cure1848

crimp1849

board1860

pebble1862

soft-board1878

sam1883

stock1883

nourish1884

buff1885

pinwheel1885

sammy1885

wheel1885

unlime1888

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 86/1 Scutching the Bark is, cleansing it from Moss, and the rough crusty outward Bark.

3. To strike the grain from (ears of corn). Cf. scutcher n.² 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > thresh

threshOE

tread1382

stampa1425

berry1483

fine1579

thrash1594

to beat out1611

flack1743

cob1796

flail1821

scutch1844

strip1861

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 271 The feeder-in supplies the mill in small quantities with the stick, so as the roughs may have time to be thoroughly scutched by the drum.

Compounds

scutch-mill n., scutch-rake n. (see quot. 1858).

ΚΠ

1852 Act 15 & 16 Victoria c. 34 For the Erection of Buildings suitable to Scutch Mills for Flax in Ireland.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Scutch-mill, a mill for preparing flax. Scutch-rake, a flax dresser's implement.

Derivatives

scutched adj.

ΚΠ

1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 785 A holder, containing a strick of scutched flax.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

scutchv.³

Brit.

/skʌtʃ/, U.S.

/skətʃ/

Forms: Also 1900s– scotch.

Etymology: Apparently Scottish variant of scotch v.¹ ( Sc. National Dict.), but compare scutch v.¹ or scutch v.²

dialect and technical.

transitive. In various dialect uses (originally Scottish: now also U.S.): to smooth or trim the surface of (a stone, hedge, log, etc.) with a slashing or slicing motion; spec. in Building, to dress (stone, or the cut surface of a brick) with a scutch (scutch n.⁴).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (transitive)] > dress stone

scapple1443

dress1501

broach1544

scabble1620

scalp1725

bed1793

rough-dress1807

hammer-dress1837

scapple-dress1840

scutch1848

1848 A. Somerville Autobiogr. Working Man xii. 144 Each hewer had a labourer allotted to him to do the rougher work upon the stone with a short pick, technically to ‘scutch’ it.

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Scotch,..specifically to dress, as stone, with a pick or picking-tool.

1907 W. M. Cockrum Pioneer Hist. Indiana viii. 186 The first thing to do was to cut three large logs the length the building was wanted and scutch one side and lay them so they were level, on a range with each other.

Derivatives

scutched adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [adjective] > dressed or hewn

hewnc1400

hewed1551

broached1625

droved1754

tooled1815

spalled1867

dressed1870

boasted1884

scutched1893

1893 J. P. Allen Pract. Building Constr. v. 70 Scutched work is similar to the last [sc. hammer-dressed work], but more finely executed.

ˈscutching n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > other processes

ripping1463

intinction1559

sweat1573

inceration1612

rasion1617

lixiviation1664

scribing1679

beating1687

bushing1794

refinishing1842

grading1852

conditioning1858

ripening1860

scutching1861

retreatment1867

chamber process1869

installation1882

tanking1891

fobbing1898

steam curing1907

sieve analysis1928

mulling1931

linishing1945

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > dressing stone

scappling1473

droving1819

plain work1823

broaching1842

stone-dressing1845

ragging1850

straggling1850

drove work1851

rocking1856

scutching1861

skifflinga1877

1861 Notes & Queries XI. 116 The bark of these trees [sc. hollies] was exactly the ‘raw material’ of his..manufacture. Forthwith he removed to Sawry..where..I found the..neighbours ready to point out ‘the old scutching-house’, as they called it.

1867 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. 1 23 For several years past more attention has been paid to the regular and proper scutching of the hedges.

1890 Cent. Dict. Scotching, in masonry, a method of dressing stone either with a pick or with pick-shaped chisels inserted into a socket formed in the head of a hammer. Also scutching.

1975 C. M. Harris Dict. Archit. 430/1 Scutching, a method of finely dressing stone with a hammer, the head of which is composed of a bundle of steel points.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1611

n.²c1791

n.³1686

n.⁴1885

v.¹1611

v.²1688

v.³1848

单词	scutch
释义	scutchn.¹ Brit. /skʌtʃ/, U.S. /skətʃ/ Etymology: < scutch v.¹ Now chiefly dialect. A stroke with a stick or whip. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > [noun] > stroke with specific blunt weapon scutch1611 jordan1699 cut1725 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something pliant lashc1330 lashingc1400 jerking1552 jerk1555 whipping1577 slive1589 whissc1590 scutch1611 scutching1611 switchinga1640 cut1787 sliver1806 switch1809 welt1863 score1882 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fessée, a scutch on the breech, a lash on the buttocks. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Singlet, a scutch,..or ierke with a rod, &c. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scutchn.² Brit. /skʌtʃ/, U.S. /skətʃ/ Forms: Also 1700s skutch, 1800s scotch. Etymology: < Old French escouche (15th cent.; modern French écouche). The remarkable correspondence of the Old French word with the modern Norwegian synonym skoka suggests that it may be of Scandinavian origin. By Hatzfeld & Darmesteter, however, it is regarded as < escoucher , escousser* to scutch, thrash, and this is identified with escousser to shake < popular Latin excussāre (compare excuss v.). 1. = scutcher n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > beating or scraping > implement for scutcher1766 scutchc1791 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > implement for swinglec1325 swingle-stickc1325 swingle-stockc1340 swingle-wandc1340 brakec1450 swingle-hand1483 swindlehanda1500 swingletree?a1500 swingling-stock?a1500 swingle-foot1500 swingling-bat1552 tow-beetle1601 tewtaw1652 swingle-staff1664 swingle-head1677 cataract1693 hemp-beatera1726 hand brake1766 scutcher1766 scutchc1791 swingling-board1819 swingling-hand1825 bott-hammer1839 swingling-post1902 c1791 Encycl. Brit.* VII. 291/2 Common flax; which from the skutch proceeds to the heckle. 1836 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. I. 510 Arms to which are attached scotches revolving within a cylindrical casing. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 702/2 An instrument somewhat resembling a curry-comb, and called a hand-scutch. 1891 Cent. Dict. at Scutcher The fluted rollers b, b′, which seize it and present it to the scutches or beaters, c. 2. ‘One of the pieces of wood which in a thrashing mill beats out the grain’ (Jamieson). Cf. scutcher n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > machine or device for > part of scutcher1797 scutch1805 throat1840 1805 Gen. View Agric. E. Lothian (Board of Agric.) 77 The purpose of separating the grain from the straw might be accomplished..by skutches acting upon the sheaves by their velocity, and beating out the grain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scutchn.³ Brit. /skʌtʃ/, U.S. /skətʃ/ Etymology: Variant of squitch n., altered form of quitch n.¹ dialect. 1. = quitch n.¹ Chiefly in combination scutch-grass in the same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > grasses perceived as weeds > [noun] > couch-grass quitcheOE quicka1400 quicken?c1425 couch-grass1578 twitch1588 twitch grass1588 dog grass1597 sea dog's grass1597 quick grass1617 couch1637 wheat-grass1668 scutch1686 quickenings1762 quicken grass1771 spear-grass1784 squitch1785 witchgrass1790 felt1794 dog-wheat1796 creeping wheat1819 quack1822 switch-grass1840 couch-wheat1884 1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 957 It has turned the Bog into a green sod, with a very fine scutch grass on it. 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 lxx. 307 It is only fit for wet, or bog lands, growing from every joint, like the scutch, or couch grass. 1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times II. 105 What he could not lay down properly, he suffered nature to lay down for him with scutch grass, thistles and docks. a1889 ‘C. Bede’ in Webster's Dict. (1897) The smoke of the burning scutch. 2. Categories » a. dialect. Rubbish (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). b. Glue-making. (See quot. 1883.) ΚΠ 1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 301/2 The matter left in the pans after boiling is termed ‘scutch’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scutchn.⁴ Brit. /skʌtʃ/, U.S. /skətʃ/ Forms: Also 2000s scotch. Etymology: < scutch v.³ Building. A cutting tool resembling a two-ended adze or pick, used for roughly dressing the cut surface of a brick or stone, and also for cutting bricks. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > adze > [noun] > for dressing stone hack hammer1377 hacking hammer1398 scutch1885 1885 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) 304 Scutch,..a bricklayer's hammer with two faces for cutting bricks. 1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 521/2 After the bolster and club hammer have removed the portion of the brick, the scutch, really a small axe, is used to hack off the rough parts. 1936 Archit. Rev. 79 240/4 (caption) The brick-saw with its entwined strands of wire, used for cutting the soffit lines to allow the scutch or brick-axe..to enter without splitting the brick. 1975 C. M. Harris Dict. Archit. 430/1 Scutch, scotch, a bricklayer's tool, with a cutting edge on each side, for cutting, trimming, and dressing brick or stone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scutchv.¹ Brit. /skʌtʃ/, U.S. /skətʃ/ Forms: Also 1700s–1800s skutch. Etymology: Of somewhat uncertain etymology. Commonly assumed to be a transferred use of scutch v.², which, though later in our quots., must from its etymology have existed at least from the 15th cent. This is not impossible (compare thresh v.), but more probably the present verb is an independent onomatopoeic formation: compare scotch v.¹ Now chiefly dialect. transitive. To strike with a stick or whip, to slash, switch. Also intransitive to strike at. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > strike with specific blunt weapon [verb (transitive)] mellc1440 wapper1481 bebat1565 rib-roast1570 batonc1580 flail1582 club1593 bastonate1596 cudgel1598 rib-baste1598 shrub1599 truncheon1600 cut1607 scutch1611 macea1634 batoon1683 towel1705 quarterstaff1709 pole1728 handspike1836 blackjack1847 bludgeon1868 sandbag1887 cosh1922 sap1926 pistol-whip1930 knuckle-dust1962 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something pliant yarka1529 jerk1550 whissa1578 cut1607 scutch1611 slash1660 lashc1694 whip1699 switch1832 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Singler,..also, to switch,.. scutch, or scourge with a rod. 1643 M. Z. B. Battel Newburne 12 in D. Laing Var. Pieces Fugitive Sc. Poetry (1853) 2nd Ser. The Scots them scutcht both upon back and shoulder. a1652 R. Brome City Wit i. i. sig. A6, in Five New Playes (1653) What Scold hath scutch'd thy skonce. 1775 ‘T. Bobbin’ Misc. Wks. 57 Shou'd they naw be..scutcht with' seme Rod wi'ther Clarks? 1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. Scutch, to strike with a thin switch, which is often done to snakes by cruel boys. 1867 B. Brierley Daisy Nook Sketches 53 He skutcht at him wi' his whip. 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 204 The master should always give his orders in an even, calm voice, devoid of passion, so that the dog cannot tell from his tone whether he is to be scutched or not. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scutchv.² Brit. /skʌtʃ/, U.S. /skətʃ/ Forms: Also skutch. Etymology: < Old French escoucher, escousser: see scutch n.² 1. transitive. To dress (fibrous material, flax, hemp, cotton, silk, wool) by beating. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > beat, hammer, or pound peal1611 tewa1642 scutch1733 beat1753 pun1838 spat1890 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [verb (transitive)] > other dizen1530 dize1673 scutch1733 sliver1796 batch1880 woollenize1890 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > treat or process flax, hemp, or jute [verb (transitive)] > beat swinglec1325 braya1398 riba1398 shive1483 bunch1601 tewtaw1601 rough-dress1622 towtaw1652 scutch1733 1733 [implied in: P. Lindsay Interest Scotl.* 159 There must be at every Mill, besides the Boys that attend the breaking and scutching of the Mill, at least, two or three skilful Flax-dressers. (at scutching n.²)]. 1763 in Scottish Forfeited Estates Papers (1909) 225 A person skilled in raising, breaking, scutching and heckling of lint. 1812 W. Scott Let. 23 Jan. (1932) III. 73 A heckle is the many-tooth'd implement with which hemp is broken and scutch'd. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. v. 159 When the heads of flax are ready for working, they are ‘scutched’ out at the ends. 1880 O. Crawfurd Portugal 194 Some portion of the flax..is broken and skutched by hand. 1884 Spectator 26 Apr. 548 Wool must be scutched to be worn. absolute.1808 Ann. Reg., Charac. 101 To try whether any improvement can be made in the mode of skutching.1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 345 Indeed, each machine not only beats, scutches, but blows. 2. Tanning. (See quot. 1688.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > other processes curry14.. shave1467 dress1511 slaughter1603 raise1607 scutch1688 chamois1728 braya1835 break1842 fellmonger1843 fire-cure1848 crimp1849 board1860 pebble1862 soft-board1878 sam1883 stock1883 nourish1884 buff1885 pinwheel1885 sammy1885 wheel1885 unlime1888 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 86/1 Scutching the Bark is, cleansing it from Moss, and the rough crusty outward Bark. 3. To strike the grain from (ears of corn). Cf. scutcher n.² 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > thresh threshOE tread1382 stampa1425 berry1483 fine1579 thrash1594 to beat out1611 flack1743 cob1796 flail1821 scutch1844 strip1861 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 271 The feeder-in supplies the mill in small quantities with the stick, so as the roughs may have time to be thoroughly scutched by the drum. Compounds scutch-mill n., scutch-rake n. (see quot. 1858). ΚΠ 1852 Act 15 & 16 Victoria c. 34 For the Erection of Buildings suitable to Scutch Mills for Flax in Ireland. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Scutch-mill, a mill for preparing flax. Scutch-rake, a flax dresser's implement. Derivatives scutched adj. ΚΠ 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 785 A holder, containing a strick of scutched flax. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). scutchv.³ Brit. /skʌtʃ/, U.S. /skətʃ/ Forms: Also 1900s– scotch. Etymology: Apparently Scottish variant of scotch v.¹ ( Sc. National Dict.), but compare scutch v.¹ or scutch v.² dialect and technical. transitive. In various dialect uses (originally Scottish: now also U.S.): to smooth or trim the surface of (a stone, hedge, log, etc.) with a slashing or slicing motion; spec. in Building, to dress (stone, or the cut surface of a brick) with a scutch (scutch n.⁴). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (transitive)] > dress stone scapple1443 dress1501 broach1544 scabble1620 scalp1725 bed1793 rough-dress1807 hammer-dress1837 scapple-dress1840 scutch1848 1848 A. Somerville Autobiogr. Working Man xii. 144 Each hewer had a labourer allotted to him to do the rougher work upon the stone with a short pick, technically to ‘scutch’ it. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Scotch,..specifically to dress, as stone, with a pick or picking-tool. 1907 W. M. Cockrum Pioneer Hist. Indiana viii. 186 The first thing to do was to cut three large logs the length the building was wanted and scutch one side and lay them so they were level, on a range with each other. Derivatives scutched adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [adjective] > dressed or hewn hewnc1400 hewed1551 broached1625 droved1754 tooled1815 spalled1867 dressed1870 boasted1884 scutched1893 1893 J. P. Allen Pract. Building Constr. v. 70 Scutched work is similar to the last [sc. hammer-dressed work], but more finely executed. ˈscutching n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > other processes ripping1463 intinction1559 sweat1573 inceration1612 rasion1617 lixiviation1664 scribing1679 beating1687 bushing1794 refinishing1842 grading1852 conditioning1858 ripening1860 scutching1861 retreatment1867 chamber process1869 installation1882 tanking1891 fobbing1898 steam curing1907 sieve analysis1928 mulling1931 linishing1945 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > dressing stone scappling1473 droving1819 plain work1823 broaching1842 stone-dressing1845 ragging1850 straggling1850 drove work1851 rocking1856 scutching1861 skifflinga1877 1861 Notes & Queries XI. 116 The bark of these trees [sc. hollies] was exactly the ‘raw material’ of his..manufacture. Forthwith he removed to Sawry..where..I found the..neighbours ready to point out ‘the old scutching-house’, as they called it. 1867 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. 1 23 For several years past more attention has been paid to the regular and proper scutching of the hedges. 1890 Cent. Dict. Scotching, in masonry, a method of dressing stone either with a pick or with pick-shaped chisels inserted into a socket formed in the head of a hammer. Also scutching. 1975 C. M. Harris Dict. Archit. 430/1 Scutching, a method of finely dressing stone with a hammer, the head of which is composed of a bundle of steel points. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1611n.²c1791n.³1686n.⁴1885v.¹1611v.²1688v.³1848
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