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Definitions
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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