scallop

plural scallops · alternative scollop

1. Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.

   Synonyms: scollop, sea scallop

2. One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.

   A coral rose, its petals unfolded in scallop around the tight inner bud

   1980 December 27, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 12

3. cookingA fillet of meat, escalope.
4. AustraliaIrelandUKregionalcookingA battered and deep-fried round potato slice.

   Synonyms: potato cake, potato scallop, fritter, smack, fairy chip, potato fritter

5. UKrareregionalcookingA sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
6. A dish shaped like a scallop shell.

present singular third person scallops · participle present scalloping · participle past scalloped · past scalloped · alternative scollop

1. To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.

   We can scallop coastlines to make them longer to serve more people.

   1966, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, page 362

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   Although aggressive, the lesion tends to scallop and not destroy the adjacent osseous structures.

   2010, Girish M. Fatterpekar, The Teaching Files: Head and Neck Imaging, →ISBN

   The daughter of the family, Katie, was older than I, an accomplished seamstress who helped me sew my first garment, a pull-over apron, and showed me how to scallop the neckline of a linen blouse.

   2012, Jo McDougall, Hilary Masters, Daddy’s Money: A Memoir of Farm and Family, →ISBN

   On the vertical stone you have to move the glass fairly quickly or it will tend not only to facet but also to scallop, since there is less glass surface touching than with the horizontal.

   2013, Anita & Seymour Isenberg, How to Work in Beveled Glass: Forming, Designing, and Fabricating, →ISBN

   Then, letting go of Option/ Alt, Gordon dragged the widget inward to scallop the corners.

   2014, Sharon Steuer, The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC, →ISBN, page 100

2. transitiveTo bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped

   You can scallop them and if you're good in the kitchen, souffle them.

   2007, Andy Rooney, Out of My Mind, →ISBN

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   I stewed them, made them into soup, and crowned all my efforts by a grand success in scalloping them, deceiving every one into the belief that they were eating oysters.

   1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 123

   And I can scallop those cold boiled potatoes and stew a can of tomatoes.

   1908, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas - Volume 35, Part 2, page 1104

   You can scallop, steam, poach, bread, brown, stuff, or put your fish in a sauce, and still have it moist and tender.

   1988, Margie Kreschollek, The guaranteed goof-proof microwave cookbook, →ISBN, page 106

   By the way, sometimes cut or chop these potatoes quite fine, and after creaming them put crumbs on top and bake them; that is a good change. Of course you can scallop the second supply, too, or chop and brown them, or serve in any one of a dozen ways; look those things all up, so you will not get into a rut.

   2015, Caroline French Benton, Living on a Little

3. intransitiveTo harvest scallops

   Jimmy used to scallop from October to March and bartend a few shifts here and there over the summers when scalloping is prohibited.

   2012, Lisa Genova, Love Anthony, →ISBN

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   He has never wanted to live anywhere but the Island, he says, where he can scallop or ice-boat in winter, depending on his mood; hunt bluebills and deer in season; look after his cows and his sheep.

   1972, Phyllis Méras, First spring: a Martha's Vineyard journal, page 18

   The project has just now been completed only for me to find I may not be able to catch scallops by placing the F/V "Miss Sue Ann" into the Occasional catagory.^([sic]) Please let me know how, given the unusual factual situation that I find myself in, I can scallop more than 19 days.

   1993, Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery, Fisheries Management Plan