scopare

1 scopare [LL], 1 scopere 1 to sweep, clean; b (fig., cf. 2 scopere). verrunt, supertrahunt, veluti ~ant GlC U 132; [abbas] intrans vidit omnia vasa mundissima ac pavimentum ~atum Wulf. Æthelwold 14; ~atus, mundatus, purgatus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 566; de mortuis et depulsis [scarabeis] vix platee possunt ~ari Gerv. Tilb. III 21; debet ‥ mundari atque ~ari dormitorium ‥ ad minus semel in anno Cust. Westm. 148; super pulverem ‥ spargit aquam et ~it [ME: swopeð] AncrR 119; 1374 in stipend’ iij hominum mundancium [et] scobancium aulam, cameras, coquinam, stabulum domini DL MinAc 507/8227 m. 1; 1444 nullus de cetero infra villam ~at muke seu vilia in le chanell Leet Coventry 208; to swepe, scobere, verrere, mundare, ~ere CathA.  b pravum est cor hominis ‥ ; si discussero et ~avero spiritum meum, si lavero me nitro P. Blois Ep. 123. 362B. 2 to clean or gut (fish). 1329 xxxiv salmones scoppatos, et liberatos ‥ clerico coquine ‥ unacum cariagio et scopacione eorundem ExchScot 160.

2 scopare [2 scopa+-are], to draw (water) out with a scoop, bail out; b (fig.). 1326 in ij scopis emptis pro aqua ~anda, vj d. Ac. Sheriffs 49/13; 1333 pro iij scopis emptis pro aqua ~anda, prec’ scope ij d. KR Ac 469/12 m. 10.  b cecantur regna cautela diaboli ~antis interpolate de regnis minucias insensibiles Wycl. Blasph. 214.