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.
To beat mercilessly.
To defeat utterly.
To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
To thresh.
A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
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