Scutching machine, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; — called also batting machine.

Scutch
(Scutch), n.

1. A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.

2. The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax. "The smoke of the burning scutch." Cuthbert Bede.

Scutcheon
(Scutch"eon) n. [Aphetic form of escutcheon.]

1. An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield. Bacon.

The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.
Macaulay.

2. A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. See Escutcheon, 4.

Scutcheoned
(Scutch"eoned) a. Emblazoned on or as a shield.

Scutcheoned panes in cloisters old.
Lowell.

scurvy, and has proved a valuable food to arctic explorers. The name is given also to other allied species of plants.

Scut
(Scut) n. [Cf. Icel. skott a fox's tail. &radic 159.] [Obs.] The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, esp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself. "He ran like a scut." Skelton.

How the Indian hare came to have a long tail, whereas that part in others attains no higher than a scut.
Sir T. Browne.

My doe with the black scut.
Shak.

Scuta
(||Scu"ta) n. pl. See Scutum.

Scutage
(Scu"tage) n. [LL. scutagium, from L. scutum a shield.] (Eng. Hist.) Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

Scutal
(Scu"tal) a. Of or pertaining to a shield.

A good example of these scutal monstrosities.
Cussans.

Scutate
(Scu"tate) a. [L. scutatus armed with a shield, from scutum a shield.]

1. Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

2. (Zoöl.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.

Scutch
(Scutch) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scutched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scutching.] [See Scotch to cut slightly.]

1. To beat or whip; to drub. [Old or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

2. To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

3. To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.


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