squinn.2
A scallop; = quin n.1
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > scallop
scale-oyster1419
scallopc1440
escallop1610
queen1803
quin1840
squin1864
queen scallop1955
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Pectinidae > genus Pecten > member of
scallopc1440
oyster-scalp1552
clam1593
escallop1610
queen1803
quin1840
squin1864
queen scallop1955
queenie1972
magnificent scallop1990
1864 P. H. Gosse in Good Words 95/1 She had never heard them called by any other name than ‘Squins’, though she understood they were called Scallops in some places.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
† squinadj.1
Obsolete. rare.
of squin, obliquely, slantingly.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > obliquely [phrase]
on (the) slenta1400
of squinc1440
at angles with1646
on the angle1753
on the (or a) skew1881
on the slant1884
on a slant1951
c1440 York Myst. viii. 74 Take high trees and hewe þame cleyne, All be sware and noght of skwyn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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