▪ I. ˈscuppet, n. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 5–6 scopett, 6 scopytt, skuppat, 8 scoopet, skippet, 9 scuppett, skoppit, 6, 9 scuppet.
[App. f. scope scoop n.1 (sense 2) + -et1 (possibly an AF. formation on the Eng. n.).]
A spade used for trenching and in making ditches; also, a similar instrument used for turning hops while drying.
| 1485 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 40 Shovilles shodde..xxiiij, Scopettes..xij. 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 17/19 Sharpe cutting spade, for the deuiding of mow, With skuppat and skauel, that marsh men alow. 1764 Museum Rust. II. 194 Help the water out of the ruts with scoops or skippets. 1843 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IV. ii. 582 In this marsh I limed 120 rods of bank during the summer with unslacked lime, and in the winter it might have been moved with a barn scuppet. 1892 Auction Catal. Farm Sale (Kent), Hop scuppet. |
▪ II. ˈscuppet, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7 scoppet.
[f. prec.]
trans. To shovel (out, away). Also fig.
| 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 28 Our mitred Archpatriarch..scuppets not his benificence into their mouthes with such freshwater facility as M. Ascham..would imply. a 1656 Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 77 Vain man, can he possibly hope to scoppet it out so fast as it fills. 1837 E. Fitzgerald Lett. (1889) I. 37, I take a spade, and scuppet away the snow from the footpaths. |