Meaning

2 senses

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

    schwingen

    трепа́тьtrepátʹ

  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete)To beat or whip; to drub.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to strip off as the cuticle from the fibre:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

scutches, scutching, scutched, scutched
Base formscutch · to scutch
3rd person singularscutches
Present participlescutching
Past simplescutched
Past participlescutched

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscutch
he, she, itscutches

Past simpleLesson

all personsscutched

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave scutched
he, she, ithas scutched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scutch

Word family

1 related words
Derivedscutching sword

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scurryscurvyscuttlescytheB2
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