Lexicographical Neighbors of Scutches
Literary usage of Scutches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1894)
"As the über passes through between the tirst pair of revolving scutches it ...
and as it passes between the second pair it scutches and combs it upwards. ..."
2. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"... formed of sheet-iron strained round a cast-iron skeleton accurately turned ;
upon this the beaters, or rather scutches, formed of angle-iron with its ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"... which are all now much the same, what- erence of signification the name may have.
Indeed, each machine not only 318 beats, scutches, but blows. Fig. ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"One who scutches ; see г.] 2. The same with SCUTCH, sense 1. Aug., Mearns. £3.
One who works in a dirty, slovenly, or awkward manner, ..."
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