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scutch

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6 lettersPronunciation /skʌt͡ʃ/Sorted cchstuStarts with SEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To beat or whip; to drub.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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”.
  • His prey was more often the over-scutched huswives, the threepenny whores with well-whipped backs, both from the beadle and their own hot-blooded clients.
  • the labourers went peacefully about their usual employments, some driving teams of ponderous horses at the plough, others burning scutch and brambles, the rubbish of field and forest.

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