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Definition of Scutchers
1. scutcher [n] - See also: scutcher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scutchers
Literary usage of Scutchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cotton Spinning by William Scott Taggart (1898)
"CHAPTER V OPENERS AND scutchers WK now come to a class of machines known under
the general name of Openers. The machines previously described, although they ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The horizontal stroke of the scutchers was long thought too severe, ... But to
obviate this objection of fhe violence of the horizontal scutchers, ..."
3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1852)
"It is thus carried around the holder I of the first mill, and, after having been
submitted to the operation of the scutchers in thai mill, comes out between ..."
4. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1852)
"F is a bevel-wheel on the driving-shaft G, which gears into another bevel-wheel
Fl on the shaft of the scutchers B1. The motion of this shaft is transmitted ..."
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