scoat

English

Etymology

From Old French ascouter, from ascot (“a branch”), (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “...from Teut., Old High Ger. scuz, a shoot; Ger. schuss”)

Verb

scoat (third-person singular simple present scoats, present participle scoating, simple past and past participle scoated)

1. (UK, dialect) To prop; to scotch.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scoat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ascot, Casto, Coast, Coats, Costa, Cotas, Sacto, ascot, catso, coast, coats, costa, octas, scato-, tacos