Also 7 escollop, 7–8 escalop. [a. OF. escalope shell, an adoption from some Teut. lang.: cf. MDu. schelpe (mod.Du. schelp) shell. The variant SCALLOP is found much earlier, and is still in use.]
1. A bivalve mollusk of the genus Pecten; = SCALLOP 1.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xxiii. (1660), 238. The Escallop (according to Dioscorides) is engendred of the Dew and Ayre.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 78. The stone is stuck full of Cockles, Escallops, and Oysters.
1886. Daily News, 24 Dec., 2/6. Escallops, 6d per dozen.
2. Her. = ESCALLOP-SHELL.
1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., i. 21. Shillings marked with an Escalope.
1708. J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., II. III. x. (1741), 429. The Point of the Sword [is] formed like an Escalop flourished.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xv. (ed. 3.), 184. Three escallops or.
3. One of a series of segments of circles forming a ‘scalloped’ edge. More usually SCALLOP.
1691. Ray, Creation (1714), 102. The Figure of the Leaves … divided into so many jags or Escallops.
4. Comb. escallop-basin, a basin made in the form of an escallop shell.
1644. Evelyn, Mem. (1819), I. 44. Before this grotto is a long poole into which ran divers spouts of water from leaden escollop basins.
