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Definition of Scutched
1. scutch [v] - See also: scutch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scutched
Literary usage of Scutched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"... provided an even crop bo obtained: and that tho hemp-straw can be scutched in
the common flax-scutching mill, by simply having the diameter of the ..."
2. Flax and Hemp: Their Culture and Manipulation by Edmund Saul Dixon, Eugene Sebastian Delamer (1854)
"In the Pas de Calais, scutched flax is always delivered in the shape of two kilo
handfuls (about five pounds and a half, united), clapped together; ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"... and about three feet high, the lint is scutched от whipped, with the wooden
instrument, .... scutched ..."
4. Manuals of Emergency Legislation: War Material Supplies Manual by Great Britain, Charles Archer Cook (1918)
"Re-scutched Tow which is inferior in quality to that of the third Grade ...
All Contracts previously entered into for the purchase of Re-scutched Tow are ..."
5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1880)
"As the ends of the material being cleaned or scutched are tirst treated, it will
be evident that the portions separated from the material by scutching will ..."
6. British Farmer's Magazine (1864)
"When it was scutched and sent to the North of Ireland, it paid £30 per statute acre.
That was equal to over £45 for the Irish acre. ..."
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