To knock sharply
To shock emotionally.
To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
An act of jolting.
A surprise or shock.
A narcotic injection.
A long prison sentence.
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.