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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 scutch /ˈskʌʧ/
 (v.)打裂而使木質部份分離

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scutch v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scutched p. pr. & vb. n. Scutching.]
 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.
 Scutching machine, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; -- called also batting machine.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.”