Definition of "scutcher" []

• One who scutches. (noun)
• An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, cotton, etc. (noun)

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• ""scutcher," three or four laps at a time, one on top of another, to have still more beating and dusting."
• "Makem's "Lonesome Waters" album and it's written as scutcher."
• "The dictionary says a scutcher is someone who separates the valuable fibers of, flax for example, from the woody parts by beating."