Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoups
Literary usage of Scoups
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide: The Game Animals, Birds and by Charles Hallock (1877)
"Ducks of all the common varieties are abundant, mallards, teal, widgeons, pin-tails,
shovelers, scoups, ..."
2. Commissary Wilson's Orderly Book: Expedition of the British and Provincial by Jeffery Amherst Amherst, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1857)
"... number of scoups for belling the Bat- teaux, and the General expects that
every Regiment will have every thing prepared for ..."
3. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon (1874)
"The cylinders are regulated to precision, whether fitted with circular frames or
otherwise, and the system of steam feeding is equal and certain. The scoups ..."
4. Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier: An Autobiography by Thomas Faughnan (1891)
"... scoups an' the squeezin' the beast gav* me. When I recovered ye wouldna hae
known ma I looked sae ..."
5. A Memoir Explanatory of the Chart and Survey of the County of London-Derry by George Vaughan Sampson (1814)
"lowest ground, intersected by trenches, filled with water; this water was
occasionally thrown, by scoups of wood, upon the linen, stretched for the purpose, ..."
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