flax scutching
1Flax — For other uses, see Flax (disambiguation). Flax Flax plant Scientific classification Kingdom …
2flax-dresser — flaxˈ dresser noun A person who prepares flax for the spinner by the successive processes of rippling, retting, grassing, breaking, and scutching • • • Main Entry: ↑flax …
3Scutching — Scutch Scutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scutched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scutching}.] [See {Scotch} to cut slightly.] 1. To beat or whip; to drub. [Old or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster] 2. To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by… …
4Scutching machine — Scutch Scutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scutched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scutching}.] [See {Scotch} to cut slightly.] 1. To beat or whip; to drub. [Old or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster] 2. To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by… …
5scutching — skÊŒtʃ n. instrument for beating and dressing flax v. beat or dress flax …
6Newmills Corn and Flax Mills — Newmills Corn Flax Mills Newmills Corn and Flax Mills (Irish: An Muileann Úr Muilte Arbhair agus Lín) are situated on the R250, Churchill road, beside Newmills Bridge on the south bank of the River Swilly, 5 kilometres west of Letterkenny in the… …
7Heckling comb — [ Roscheider Hof, Open Air Museum] Heckling combs are used to remove the fibrous core and impurities from flax. A heckling comb, or heckle is a bed of iron, steel or brass nails sharp, long, tapered, tempered, polished pins driven into wooden… …
8Stahlstown, Pennsylvania — Stahlstown is a small unincorporated community in Cook Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It is 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just a few miles from the Donegal exit on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, located at the intersection …
9Meikle, Andrew — ▪ Scottish inventor born 1719, Scotland died Nov. 27, 1811, Houston Mill, near Dunbar, East Lothian Scottish millwright and inventor of the threshing machine for removing the husks from grain. During most of his life Meikle was a… …
10Cloughmills — Coordinates: 55°00′04″N 6°17′10″W / 55.001°N 6.286°W / 55.001; 6.286 …
