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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shovel or spade of uniform width, with the sides turned a little inward.
- To shovel, as with a scuppet: as, to scuppet sand.
Examples
“I take a spade, and scuppet {44} away the snow from the footpaths ....”
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Wilton's words
Favourite words, usages and passages from Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Iacke Wilton" (1594)
doit, dandiprat, weep one's urine ..., snudge, scuppet, langret, fullam, hedgecreeper, pickthanke, go shop the gander, together by the ears, quagmire and 42 more...
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yarb But the next daie I thinke we had a dole of syder, syder in boules, in scuppets, in helmets, & to conclude, if a man would haue fild his bootes full, there hee might haue had it, prouant thrust it selfe into poore souldiers pockets whether they would or no.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594 Mar 5, 2010