Meaning of scutch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable
2. A tuft or clump of grass.
3. The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
   uncountable
4. A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“the labourers went peacefully about their usual employments, some driving teams of ponderous horses at the plough, others burning scutch and brambles, the rubbish of field and forest.”

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