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Thread #92356   Message #1767675
Posted By: r.padgett
23-Jun-06 - 05:36 PM
Thread Name: Irish word 'scutch'?
Subject: RE: Irish word 'scutch'?
Barnsley, England was a cottage industry weaving linen around 1850

scutch in use still meaning to 'give a backhander' smack so no doubt derived from linen weaving term

Ray