Definitions for escallop

escallop es·cal·lop

Spelling: [e-skol-uh p, e-skal-]
IPA: /ɛˈskɒl əp, ɛˈskæl-/

Escallop is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in escallop (acellops).

Definitions for escallop

noun

  1. scallop.
  2. Heraldry. a representation of a scallop shell, traditionally associated with pilgrimages and crusades.

verb (used with object)

  1. to bake (food cut into pieces) in a sauce or other liquid, often with crumbs on top; scallop.
  2. to bake (fish, potatoes, etc.) in scallop shells.

Origin of escallop

1425-75; late Middle English Middle French, Old French escalope, escalipe shell (of a nut, snail, etc.), perhaps Middle Dutch scelpe, scolpe mollusk shell (Dutch schelp; perhaps akin to

Examples for escallop

Gardens are sometimes bordered with escallop shells, which are neat enough but seem rather out of place among flowers.

St. James the Greater has the escallop shell and staff of the pilgrim.

Per pale sable and or, a cheveron between three escallop shells, all counterchanged.

In conjunction with fish we may perhaps consider the escallop which, as a charge, belongs to the earliest period of Heraldry.

Four fusils in fess, each charged with an escallop (Cheney).

Gules, four fusils in fess or, each charged with an escallop sable (Cheney).

The badge of the Lords Dacre was an escallop united to a ragged staff, as in the margin.

But that cockleshell he stamped his shillings with—follow me—it was an escallop, and a mint-mark for that very year of Elizabeth.

On the western side are the rose and escallop shell, badges of the Dacres and Nevilles.

Word Value for escallop
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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