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  • 1hards — n. pl. Tow, refuse flax …

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  • 2tow — I. n. Refuse flax, hards. II. v. a. Draw (as a vessel, through the water), haul, drag, draw, pull, take in tow, tug …

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  • 3lint — (n.) late 14c., flax prepared for spinning, also refuse of flax used as kindling, somehow from the source of O.E. lin flax (see LINEN (Cf. linen)), perhaps from or by influence of M.Fr. linette grain of flax, dim. of lin flax, from L. linum flax …

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  • 8Scutch — Scutch, n. 1. A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp. [1913 Webster] 2. The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax. The smoke of the burning scutch. Cuthbert Bede. [1913 Webster] …

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