scoopern.
/ˈskuːpə/, U.S. /ˈskupər/ 1.
a. One who or that which scoops.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > workers performing other tasks or processes
river?c1475
melter1511
sinker1526
folder up1552
wiper1552
scourer1574
heaver1587
stoverc1600
rasper1611
ripper1611
roller1616
smearer1632
waterleadera1650
scooper1668
smiter1670
puncher1681
staker1688
crusher1794
hardener1796
reamer1822
piledriver1826
catcher1832
waterproofer1837
middler1847
culler1850
hanger-on1858
pitcher1865
bumper1871
fine liner1871
bricksetter1883
waxer1890
bottle-oh1898
edger1909
bottle-o-er1915
caster1921
recycler1970
linesperson1973
1668 [see sense 1b].
1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.
a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1883) iii. 27 The Indians..sweep down stream with a scoop-net. Salmon..are taken twenty an hour by every scooper.
1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Scoopers' Pneumonia, a form of chronic Pneumoconiosis occurring among grain-scoopers.
1908 Speaker 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 n. (see quot. 1668).
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > member of genus Recurvirostra (avocet)
scooper1668
shoeing-horn1668
crooked-bill1705
cobbler's awl1759
picarini1770
yelper1770
avocet1771
scooping avocet1776
red-necked avocet1823
bluestocking1844
shoehorn1864
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 96 Avosetta,..the Scooper (because his long narrow beak, arched upward, resembles the long crooked scoop).
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 134 The Avosetta..The Scooper.
1856 F. O. Morris Nat. Hist. Nests & Eggs Brit. Birds III. 15.
2. A tool used for hollowing out portions of the surface worked upon; esp. in Engraving.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > gouging tools
scoop1747
scooper1837
scorper1843
groover1865
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools
pouncer1552
graving tool1591
pounce1598
puncheon1659
burin1662
eschoppe1662
graver1662
needle1662
point1662
style1662
sculpter1680
scalper1688
small chisel1749
roulette1806
engraver1821
dry-point1837
scooper1837
stylet1853
tint-tool1869
diamond-point1874
spit-sticker1909
bull-sticker1933
1837 Penny 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.
1839 W. A. Chatto Treat. Wood Engraving viii. 653 Gravers; tint-tools; gouges or scoopers; and flat tools or chisels.
1872 Spons' Dict. Engin. V. 1817 [Engravers' tools] A flat scooper;..a round scooper.
1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Feb. 152/2 [Modelling in clay] A scooper and two or three..scrapers will be..required.
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