scop

[ skop ]

noun
  1. an Old English bard or poet.

Origin of scop

1
before 900; learned borrowing (19th century) of Old English scop; cognate with Old Norse skop mocking, Old High German skof derision

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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.

  • The writer ascribes this call to the collared scops owl (Scops bakkamoena).

  • It is easy to distinguish between the two owls, as the scops has aigrettes or "horns," which the spotted owlet lacks.

  • A 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) Keyser
  • Very different is the cry of the little scops owl (Scops giu).

    Glimpses of Indian Birds | Douglas Dewar

British Dictionary definitions for scop

scop

/ (skɒp) /


noun
  1. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel

Origin of scop

1
Old English: related to Old Norse skop, skaup, Old High German scof, scopf poem

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