scutch

Meanings

1. To beat or whip; to drub.
2. To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

1. A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
2. The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
3. A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.

1. A tuft or clump of grass.

Etymology

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