Scutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /skÊŒt͡ʃ/Rhymes: -ÊŒtʃ

Perhaps imitative.

Full definition of scutch

Verb

1. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) To beat or whip; to drub.
2. To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
• 2005, John Martin, Warren Leonard, David Stamp, and Richard Waldren, Principles of Field Crop Production (4th Edition), section 32.10 “Processing Fiber Flax”, the title of subsection 32.10.3 “Scutching”.
• 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:His prey was more often the over-scutched huswives, the threepenny whores with well-whipped backs, both from the beadle and their own hot-blooded clients.

Noun

1. An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them.
2. The woody fibre of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
• Cuthbert BedeThe smoke of the burning scutch.

From Irish.

Noun

1. A tuft or clump of grass.