How to pronounce scutch

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What scutch means

verb

To beat flax stalks to free the fibers for linen

In a sentence: The workers scutch the dried flax with wooden blades until the soft fibers fall free.

Where it comes from: It comes from an old French word, escoucher, which grew out of Latin.

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