scrobe

From Latin scrobis (“ditch, dike, trench”).

• enPR: skrōb, IPA^(key): /skɹəʊb/

scrobe (plural scrobes)

1. (obsolete, rare) A trench.
   • 1686, John Goad, Aſtro-Meteorologica, or Aphoriſm’s and Diſcourſes of the Bodies Cœleſtial, book I, chapter vi, § 4, page 17:

     Thence all the Rules for Cattel, their Admiſſures, their Caſtration, &c. at ſeveral times of the Moon; for the Ground, enjoining to dig their ſcrobes; for the Planting of Trees at the Full Moon; ſoiling their Grounds at the Decreaſes, to avoid Worms, &c. making the beds, the Seed plats, while the Moon is up; ſowing Seed, and planting Trees, at the Increaſe; covering Roots at the Full; gathering and Houſing of Corn, &c. at the Wane: Plin. XIX. 6. Garlick ſet for the abating of the Smell at the ſame time, treading the Wine-preſs while ſhe is under the Horizon.

2. (entomology) A groove in the rostrum of weevils, or on the outer side of the mandible.
   • 1891, The Century Dictionary of the English Language, first edition, part XVIII: Ring–Sea-gull, page 5425/3, s.v. “scrobe, n.”:

     scrobe (skrōb), n. [< L. scrobis, a ditch, dike, trench. Hence ult. scrobicula, etc., and prob. ult. screw¹.] In entom.: (a) A groove in the side of the rostrum in which the scape or basal joint of the antenna is received, in the weevils or curculios. These scrobes may be directed straight forward, or upward or downward, and thus furnish characters much used in classifying such beetles. (b) A groove on the outer side of the mandible, more fully called mandibular scrobe.

• Isaac Kaufmann Funk et al., editors (1895), “scrobe, n.”, in A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, first edition, Volume II. — M to Z, New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, page 1607, column 1.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Scrobe”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 287, column 2.

• Broces, Scerbo, Cobers

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskrɔ.bɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskrɔː.be]

scrobe m or f

1. ablative singular of scrobis