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Scutch

(sk?ch) 

v.   scutched, scutch·ing, scutch·es
To separate the valuable fibers of (flax, for example) from the woody parts by beating.
n.   An implement used for scutching.

[Obsolete French escoucher, from Anglo-Norman escucher, from Vulgar Latin *excutic?re, frequentative of Latin excutere, to shake out : ex-, ex- + quatere, to shake; see kw?t- in Indo-European roots.]
scutch'er n.

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Sennight

[sen-ahyt, -it] –noun Archaic.
a week.

Also, se'nnight.


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Origin:
bef. 1000; ME sevenyht, seoveniht(e), sennyght, etc., OE seofon nihta. See seven, night
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Sir Thomas Malory, Le Mort d'Arthur: "They sojourned there a sennight, and were well eased of their wounds, and at the last departed".