单词 | scutcher |
释义 | † scutchern.1 Obsolete. A stick, a whip. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > rod or birch besomc893 yardc1000 rodlOE baleysa1259 ferule1559 scutcher1611 birch1648 whisk rod1688 twig1736 fasces1762 tickler1765 tickle-tail1785 wand1828 tickle-toby1830 birch-rod1834 birch-wand1876 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Verge,..a whisker, switch, or scutcher, to ride with. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Singlant This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). scutchern.2 1. An implement or apparatus for scutching.Variously applied to: A hand tool for scutching flax or hemp, a scutch-blade; one of a number of projections on a revolving drum or axle in a scutching-machine; a machine (of various kinds) for scutching flax, silk, cotton, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > beating or scraping > implement for scutcher1766 scutchc1791 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > implement for swinglec1325 swingle-stickc1325 swingle-stockc1340 swingle-wandc1340 brakec1450 swingle-hand1483 swindlehanda1500 swingletree?a1500 swingling-stock?a1500 swingle-foot1500 swingling-bat1552 tow-beetle1601 tewtaw1652 swingle-staff1664 swingle-head1677 cataract1693 hemp-beatera1726 hand brake1766 scutcher1766 scutchc1791 swingling-board1819 swingling-hand1825 bott-hammer1839 swingling-post1902 1766 Compl. Farmer at Hemp The workman..strikes it with the sharpened edge of a long, flat, and strait piece of wood, commonly called a swingle hand, or scutcher. 1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 604/2 A lint-mill with horizontal scutchers upon a perpendicular axle. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 379 A scotcher, revolving rapidly upon its axis, strikes the cotton with its two edges. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 379 It is grasped at the proper moment by the holding apparatus of the second pair of the scutchers. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2079/1 Scutcher,..a beating-engine, in which floss and refuse silk..is brought to a downy condition. 2. The part of a thrashing machine which strikes off the grain. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > machine or device for > part of scutcher1797 scutch1805 throat1840 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 507/1 While the scutchers strike off the grain from the straw as it passes through. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 285 The essential parts of the thrashing apparatus, the feeding-rollers and the beater or scutcher. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 110 Mr. Oxley is said to have afterwards tried the plan of stripping the corn from the straw by means of a scutcher. 3. A person employed in scutching. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > beating or scraping > one who scutcher1847 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > one who hemp-beater1615 flax-swingler1663 scutcher1847 1847 Nicholls in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 457 Having a slit..into which the scutcher slips the flax. 1891 S. Webb in Econ. Jrnl. 1 641 Average Earnings per Week in 1885 of Scutchers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11611n.21766 |
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