scop

[ skop ]

/ skɒp /

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noun

an Old English bard or poet.

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Origin of scop

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.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar
The writer ascribes this call to the collared scops owl (Scops bakkamoena).
A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar
It 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 Dewar
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

(in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel

Word Origin for scop

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

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