échardonnoir, n.m., weed-hook.
écharner, v.a., to excarnate; to flesh.
écharnoir, n.m., fleshing-knife.
écharnure, n.f., scrapings or parings of hides.
écharpe, n.f., scarf; sash; arm-sling; (nav.) shell of a pulley or block; (engineering) surface-table; water-table; (her.) scarp. Changer d’—; to be a turncoat, to change sides, to rat. Avoir le bras en —; to have one’s arm in a sling. Le canon tire en —; the cannon fires slanting. Coup d’épée en —; slanting cut. Avoir l’esprit en —; to be heedless, absent, inattentive. En —; over the shoulder.
écharper, v.a., to slash, to cut; to cut to pieces, to hack. Il lui a écharpé le visage; he gave him a slash across the face. — un régiment; to cut a regiment to pieces.
échars, -e, adj., (coins) light; below the legal standard. Vents —; (nav.) shifting winds, light and variable winds.
écharser, v.n., (nav.) to veer, to shift about, to change often. ☉v.a., to lower the standard of coins.
échasse, n.f., (orni.) stilt-bird. — à manteau noir; long-legged plover.
échasse, n.f., stilt; tressel, trussel (of stages); upher. — d’échafaud; upher, scaffolding-pole. Il est toujours monté sur des —s; he is always on stilts, in buckram.