scallop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Old French escalope (“shell”). Doublet of escalope. Related to scale and shell.
Inflected forms:
form: scallops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scollop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: scallops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scalloping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scalloped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scalloped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scollop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
pos: noun
examples: A coral rose, its petals unfolded in scallop around the tight inner bud
gloss: A fillet of meat, escalope.
pos: noun
gloss: A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
UK
regional
gloss: A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
pos: noun
tags: UK
rare
regional
gloss: A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
pos: noun
gloss: To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
pos: verb
examples: We can scallop coastlines to make them longer to serve more people.
Although aggressive, the lesion tends to scallop and not destroy the adjacent osseous structures.
The daughter of the family, Katie, was older than I, an accomplished seamstress who helped me sew my first garment, a pull-over apron, and showed me how to scallop the neckline of a linen blouse.
On the vertical stone you have to move the glass fairly quickly or it will tend not only to facet but also to scallop, since there is less glass surface touching than with the horizontal.
Then, letting go of Option/ Alt, Gordon dragged the widget inward to scallop the corners.
gloss: To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
And I can scallop those cold boiled potatoes and stew a can of tomatoes.
You can scallop, steam, poach, bread, brown, stuff, or put your fish in a sauce, and still have it moist and tender.
You can scallop them and if you're good in the kitchen, souffle them.
By the way, sometimes cut or chop these potatoes quite fine, and after creaming them put crumbs on top and bake them; that is a good change. Of course you can scallop the second supply, too, or chop and brown them, or serve in any one of a dozen ways; look those things all up, so you will not get into a rut.
gloss: To harvest scallops
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
The project has just now been completed only for me to find I may not be able to catch scallops by placing the F/V "Miss Sue Ann" into the Occasional catagory.^([sic]) Please let me know how, given the unusual factual situation that I find myself in, I can scallop more than 19 days.
Jimmy used to scallop from October to March and bartend a few shifts here and there over the summers when scalloping is prohibited.
Derived words: flame scallop
pilgrim's scallop
queen scallop
scalloper
scallop moth
scallop shell
scallop squash
scallop theorem
scallopwing
scallopwise
what the scallop
Yesso scallop
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