escalop

Noun

escallop (plural escallops)

1. A scallop.
2. A bearing or charge consisting of an escalop shell, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
3. (obsolete) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything.
   • So many jags or escalops.1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC

Verb

scallop (third-person singular simple present scallops, present participle scalloping, simple past and past participle scalloped)

1. To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
   • We can scallop coastlines to make them longer to serve more people.1966, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, page 362
2. (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
   • I stewed them, made them into soup, and crowned all my efforts by a grand success in scalloping them, deceiving every one into the belief that they were eating oysters.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 123
3. (intransitive) To harvest scallops
   • He has never wanted to live anywhere but the Island, he says, where he can scallop or ice-boat in winter, depending on his mood; hunt bluebills and deer in season; look after his cows and his sheep.1972, Phyllis Méras, First spring: a Martha's Vineyard journal, page 18

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