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Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Etymology: obsolete French escoucher, from Middle French escochier, from Vulgar Latin *excuticare to beat out, from Latin excutere, from ex- + quatere to shake, strike Date: 1733 to separate the woody fiber from (flax or hemp) by beating II. noun Date: circa 1791 1. scutcher 2. a bricklayer's hammer for cutting, trimming, and dressing bricks

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. dress (fibrous material, esp. retted flax) by beating. Derivatives: scutcher n. Etymology: OF escouche, escoucher (dial.), escousser, ult. f. L excutere excuss- (as EX-(1), quatere shake)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scutch Scutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scutched; p. pr. & vb. n. Scutching.] [See Scotch to cut slightly.] 1. To beat or whip; to drub. [Old or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 2. To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle. 3. To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing. Scutching machine, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; -- called also batting machine.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scutch Scutch, n. 1. A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp. 2. The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax. ``The smoke of the burning scutch.'' --Cuthbert Bede.