Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In woodwork and metalwork, a form of gouging-chisel for working in hollows, as in forming bowls and in undercutting carvings, etc.
- n. A pointed, flat, or rounded steel tool with a sharp edge, set in a wooden or other handle, used by the jeweler for drilling holes and cutting away parts of the metal-work around settings to hold precious stones.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of scauper.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as scauper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scorper’.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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mollusque Citation at spitsticker. Mar 21, 2009