Word Direct Answers

What does "scallop" mean?

Scallop: One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.

Additional senses

  1. 2.One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.
  2. 3.To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.
  3. 4.(Cookery) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.

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