To beat or whip.
To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
To cover with lather.
A state of agitation.
The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
A tuft or clump of grass.
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.