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: an 18th-century table implement often of silver with a long thin bowl suitable for removing marrow from a bone

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“Marrow scoop.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marrow%20scoop. Accessed 13 December 2019.

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