scutch

n. 打麻[棉]机 v. 将麻,棉等的纤维打散, 以打麻机打

发音

其它 /skʌt͡ʃ/

词形变化

scutches 复数 scutched scutches 三单 scutches scutching scutching 现在分词 scutched 过去式 scutched 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

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  2. 2.

    The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.

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  3. 3.

    A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.

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  4. 1.

    A tuft or clump of grass.

v.
  1. 1.

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

    2005, John Martin, Warren Leonard, David Stamp, and Richard Waldren, Principles of Field Crop Production (4th Edition), section 32.10 “Processing Fiber Flax”, the title of subsection 32.10.3 “Scutching”.

  2. 2.

    To beat or whip; to drub.

    苏格兰 英国 方言 废旧

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词源

From Middle English *scucchen, from Anglo-Norman escucher, from Vulgar Latin *excuticāre.

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