scutch¹ /skuch/

1. To dress (eg flax) by beating
2. To switch

1. A tool for dressing flax, a swingle
2. A bricklayer's cutting tool

scutchˈer noun

1. A person, tool, or part of a machine that scutches
2. The striking part of a threshing mill

scutchˈing noun

• frontiers
• frontiersman
• frontiersmen
• frontierswoman
• frontierswomen
• fronting
• frontispiece
• frontispieced
• frontispieces
• frontispiecing
• frontless
• frontlessly
• frontlet
• frontlets
• front line
• front-line
• front lines
• front-loaded
• front-loader
• front-loaders
• front-loading
• front man
• frontman
• front men
• frontmen