scop (sh?p, sh?p)n. An Old English poet or bard.[Old English.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.scop (sk?p) n (Music, other) (in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel[Old English: related to Old Norse skop, skaup, Old High German scof, scopf poem]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014