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单词 scutcher
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scutchern.1

Etymology: < scutch v.1 + -er suffix1.
Obsolete.
A stick, a whip.
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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

Brit. /ˈskʌtʃə/, U.S. /ˈskətʃər/
Forms: Also scotcher, skutcher.
Etymology: < scutch v.2 Compare Old French *escouchoir, in 15th cent. escoussour flail.
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.
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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.
attributive.1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 347 GH and MN are the two scutcher frames.
2. The part of a thrashing machine which strikes off the grain.
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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.
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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).
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