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Scooper   Listen
noun
Scooper  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, scoops.
2.
(Zool.) The avocet; so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scooper" Quotes from Famous Books



... immediate neighborhood, wishing to be as protected from chance observation as possible. And they found their wanderings in search of fuel full of interest. At some distance from their camping-place they came upon a muddy shallow. And there on the bank Hugo saw his first avoset or "scooper," as Humphrey called him. The bird was resting from his labors when the two first observed him. Though the ooze was soft the bird did not sink into it. There he stood, his wide-webbed toes supporting him on the surface of the ooze, and it seemed a long way from ...
— A Boy's Ride • Gulielma Zollinger



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