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n.
A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.
n.
The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
v. t.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
a.
Like flax; flaxen.
n.
A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.
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The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
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An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.
v.
An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
v. t.
To comb or card, as wool or flax.
n.
A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
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A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
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To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.
v. t.
To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
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To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.
n.
Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
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The seed of the flax; linseed.
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Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.
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An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.
v. t.
To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
v. t.
To beat; to break, as flax or hemp.
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