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▪ I. scooper|ˈskuːpə(r)|
[f. scoop v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who or that which scoops.
1668[implied in b]. 1755in Johnson. a1861T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle iii. (1883) 27 The Indians..sweep down stream with a scoop-net. Salmon..are taken twenty an hour by every scooper. 1897Syd. Soc. Lex., Scoopers' Pneumonia, a form of chronic Pneumoconiosis occurring among grain-scoopers. 1908Speaker 1 Aug. 633/2 The custom was for the steamboat company to go to a ‘boss shoveller’ and hire his gang of ‘scoopers’.
b. A name for the avocet (see quot. 1668).
1668Charleton Onomast. 96 Avosetta,..the Scooper (because his long narrow beak, arched upward, resembles the long crooked scoop). 1768Pennant Brit. Zool. II. 399. 1856 Morris Nests & Eggs Brit. Birds III. 15.
2. A tool used for hollowing out portions of the surface worked upon; esp. in Engraving.
1837Penny Cycl. IX. 437/2 Other lines being of the same width through their whole depth, must have been produced with that species of graver called a scooper. 1839Chatto Wood Engraving 653 Gravers; tint-tools; gouges or scoopers; and flat tools or chisels. 1872Spon's Dict. Engin. v. 1817 [Engravers' tools] A flat scooper;..a round scooper. 1884Cassell's Family Mag. Feb. 152/2 [Modelling in clay] A scooper and two or three..scrapers will be..required.
▪ II. scooper, scoopet
see scupper, scuppet. |