Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shovel or spade of uniform width, with the sides turned a little inward.
- To shovel, as with a scuppet: as, to
scuppet sand.
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Examples
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I take a spade, and scuppet {44} away the snow from the footpaths ....
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
yarb commented on the word scuppet
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
March 6, 2010