gauze vs scutch

gauze

noun
  • A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. 

  • A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. 

  • Wire gauze, used as fence. 

  • A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. 

  • Mist or haze 

verb
  • To apply a dressing of gauze 

  • To mist; to become gauze-like. 

scutch

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle. 

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