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  1. scutch

    Scutching is a step in the processing of cotton or the dressing of flax or hemp in preparation for spinning. The scutching process separates the impurities from the raw material, such as the seeds from raw cotton or the straw and woody stem from flax fibers. Scutching can be done by hand or by a machine known as a scutcher. Hand scutching of flax is done with a wooden scutching knife and a small iron scraper. The end products of scutching flax are the long finer flax fibers called line, short coarser fibers called tow, and waste woody matter called shives.In the early days of the cotton industry the raw material was manually beaten with sticks after being placed on a mesh, a process known as willowing or batting, until the task was mechanised by the development of machines known as willowers. Scutching machines were introduced in the early 19th-century, and processed the raw material into a continuous sheet of cotton wadding known as a lap.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scutchverb

    to beat or whip; to drub

  2. Scutchverb

    to separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle

  3. Scutchverb

    to loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing

  4. Scutchnoun

    a wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp

  5. Scutchnoun

    the woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax

  6. Etymology: [See Scotch to cut slightly.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scutch

    skuch, v.t. to beat: to separate from the core, as flax.—n. a coarse tow that separates from flax in scutching.—ns. Scutch′er, one who dresses hedges: an implement used in scutching, esp. a beater in a flax-scutching machine, &c.; Scutch′ing-sword, a beating instrument in scutching flax by hand. [Prob. O. Fr. escousser, to shake off—Low L. excussāre—L. excutĕre, to shake off.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scutch in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scutch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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