verb pound; strike beat 20-.
noun a pot scourer made by tying heather twigs together: And he made scrubbers, or reenges for the ports, from the carlin heather. 19-. etymology: Scots; ultimately same word as English rinse, the Scots forms and northern English dialect rench; perhaps. derived directly from northern French dialect rincher, raincher ‘to swill’, French rincer ‘to rinse, thrash’, late Latin recentare ‘to freshen, renew’; verb attested by JS, BW and DW