scollopn.
/ˈskɒləp/, U.S. /ˈskɑləp/, Irish English /ˈskɑləp/ Irish English.
A thatch-peg.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch
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1829 M. Edgeworth Frank in Early Lessons (new ed.) III. 107 The thatcher..fastens them down with bent twigs, which he calls scollops... Here is a scollop. You see, it is sharpened at both ends, that it may stick in the roof.
1873 E. O'Curry Manners Anc. Irish III. 32 The house..was thatched with straw, rushes, or sedge, and neatly fastened down with what are now Anglicised ‘scollops’.
1888 E. Laws Hist. Little Eng. beyond Wales 421 [Pembrokeshire word] Scolps, thatch pegs.
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