Definition of "scutched" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of scutch. (verb)

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• "It is then dried and broken, and afterwards "scutched," and rendered still cleaner and finer by a process called "hackling.""
• "It is only an ass like Justice Shallow, who would pitch upon the over-scutched tunes, which the carmen whistled, and try to pass them off as his FANCIES and his"
• "You must know that I once sowed a crop of flax in these parts and pulled it and scutched it and spent on it five hundred gold pieces; after which I would have sold it, but could get no more than this therefor, and the folk said to me,"