āˈshäp, -shȯp noun
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Etymology: French échoppe, by folk etymology (influence of French échoppe booth, from Old French escope, from Middle Dutch schoppe ) from obsolete French eschople, alteration of Middle French eschalpre scraping or graving tool, from Latin scalprum chisel, knife — more at scalpel , shop
: an engraver's needle beveled to an oval facet at the end and used to reopen previously incised lines