海裡的那種貝
這一支就是核心畫面本身，其他所有意思都從這裡借形狀或借名字。
noun · B2
A small sea animal that people eat. It lives inside a flat round shell made of two halves that close together, and the edge of the shell runs in a row of curves.
扇貝、干貝
核心畫面
Hold one scallop shell in your hand. It is flat, it is round, it is two matching halves that shut together, and its edge runs in and out in a row of small curves. Almost everything this word does comes off that one object. The curved edge becomes a shape you can give to cloth and paper, and then an action — to scallop an edge. The hollow half becomes a dish, and a dish baked in it becomes a way of cooking. Only the thin slice of meat comes by a different road, out of the same old word for a shell.
把一片扇貝殼放在手心看一看。它扁、它圓、兩片剛好對合，而且邊緣是一排凹凹凸凸的小圓弧。這個字幾乎所有的用法都是從這一…更多收起
把一片扇貝殼放在手心看一看。它扁、它圓、兩片剛好對合，而且邊緣是一排凹凹凸凸的小圓弧。這個字幾乎所有的用法都是從這一個東西身上長出來的。那圈波浪邊被借去形容布邊和紙邊，再變成一個動作——把邊做成波浪。那個凹下去的半片被當成盤子，裝在裡面烤的菜久了就把名字給了這種做法。只有「薄肉片」那一個意思走的是另一條路，從同一個古字的另一頭出來。From the word’s history
From Old French escalope, 'shell'; the source records it as a doublet of escalope and as related to scale and shell.
來源記載它來自古法文 escalope，意思就是「殼」，並且跟 escalope（薄肉片）是同一個字的兩條路，也跟 scale（鱗片）、shell（殼）有關。這幾個字共通的畫面都是「薄薄的一片外殼」，正好對上今天手裡那片扇貝。
Wiktionary etymology for 'scallop' in the supplied evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1101015821:35398)
Four branches
從殼邊借來的形狀
把眼睛從整顆殼移到殼的邊緣，那一排小圓弧本身就成了一個可以借用的形狀。
noun · C1
One of a row of small curves cut or sewn along the edge of cloth, paper or another surface, so that the edge looks like the curved edge of a scallop shell. It is nearly always used in the plural.
扇形花邊、波浪邊
從殼當盤子來的做法
凹下去的那半片殼本來就是現成的小盤子，於是裝在裡面烤的菜也跟著叫這個名字。
noun · C1
A round slice of potato cooked in fat — usually covered in batter and deep-fried, and sometimes just fried in a little oil. Used in parts of Britain, Ireland and Australia; the shallow-fried kind is recorded as rare.
炸馬鈴薯片
另一條路：薄薄的一片肉
這一支不是從貝殼的畫面比喻出來的，而是同一個古字走的另一條路。
noun · C1
In cooking: a thin flat piece of meat, cut across the grain and often beaten flatter before frying. It is the same thing as an escalope.
薄肉片、肉排