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.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch.
The swinging part of a flail, especially that which is used on the grain in threshing; the swiple.
To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
To dangle; to wave hanging.