Usually means: Remove fibers from raw cotton.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. scutch: Merriam-Webster
  2. scutch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scutch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scutch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scutch: Wordnik
  6. scutch: Wiktionary
  7. scutch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. scutch: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. scutch: Dictionary.com
  10. Scutch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. scutch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Scutch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. Scutch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. scutch: FreeDictionary.org
  15. scutch: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. scutch: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. scutch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scutch: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scutch: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. Scutch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scutch)

verb:  (obsolete, UK, Scotland, Northern England, dialect) To beat or whip; to drub.
verb:  To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
noun:  (countable) A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
noun:  (uncountable) The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
noun:  (countable) A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
noun:  A tuft or clump of grass.

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