Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sawdust; shavings; also, raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substances; dross of metals, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.
- noun The dross of metals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
raspings ofivory ,hartshorn ,metals , or other hard substance - noun The
dross ofmetals .
Etymologies
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Latin scobs, or scobis, from scabere to scrape.
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Examples
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‘Scope,’ or ‘scobs’ as it appears in Herd, means a gag, and was apparently used to prevent her from crying out.
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Frank Sidgwick
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