Definition of Scoups

1. scoup [v] - See also: scoup

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoups

scoug
scouged
scough
scouging
scougs
scould
scoundrel
scoundreldom
scoundrelism
scoundrelly
scoundrelry
scoundrels
scoup
scouped
scouping
scoups (current term)
scour
scourable
scourage
scourages
scoured
scourer
scourer pad
scourer pads
scourers
scourge
scourged
scourger
scourgers
scourges

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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