scop
an Old English bard or poet.
Origin of scop
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How to use scop in a sentence
The scops is a small owl with aigrettes or "horns," the wood-owl is a large bird without aigrettes.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarThe writer ascribes this call to the collared scops owl (Scops bakkamoena).
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarIt is easy to distinguish between the two owls, as the scops has aigrettes or "horns," which the spotted owlet lacks.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarA screech owl (Scops zorca) weighing one-third of a pound had 2.35 square feet of wing surface per pound of weight.
Our Bird Comrades | Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) KeyserVery different is the cry of the little scops owl (Scops giu).
Glimpses of Indian Birds | Douglas Dewar
British Dictionary definitions for scop
/ (skɒp) /
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel
Origin of scop
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