scutched

It is then dried and broken, and afterwards "scutched," and rendered still cleaner and finer by a process called "hackling."

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

It is only an ass like Justice Shallow, who would pitch upon the over-scutched tunes, which the carmen whistled, and try to pass them off as his FANCIES and his

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

You must know that I once sowed a crop of flax in these parts and pulled it and scutched it and spent on it five hundred gold pieces; after which I would have sold it, but could get no more than this therefor, and the folk said to me,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Scutching precedes spinning (not immediately though as I understand); Clotho should have yarn ready for spinning (already scutched) at her disposal.

languagehat.com: SCUTCH. 2005

The scutched flax is drawn through iron combs which still further open the fiber.

Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

We water-rotted our flax, broke it by hand, scutched it, picked the seed out of the cotton with our fingers; our mothers and sisters carded, spun, and wove it into cloth, and they cut and made our garments and bed-clothes, etc.

Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887

Then it was scutched or swingled with a swingling block and knife, to take out any small particles of bark that might adhere.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

Courier, entitled "Confederate Flax," in which it is stated that Mr.D. Ewart, of Florida, had presented for exhibition "specimens of scutched fibre, and of cordage and twine of different sizes, made from the very common plant familiarly known as bear-grass, or Adam's needles."

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

We water-rotted our flax, broke it by hand, scutched it, picked the seed out of the cotton with our fingers; our mothers and sisters carded, spun, and wove it into cloth, and they cut and made our garments and bed-clothes, etc.

Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862

You must know that I once sowed a crop of flax in these parts and pulled it and scutched it and spent on it five hundred gold pieces; after which I would have sold it, but could get no more than this therefor, and the folk said to me, ‘Carry it to

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855