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HOOP, n. A band of wood or metal used to confine the staves of casks,tubs, &c. or for other similar purposes. Wooden hoops are usually made by splitting an oak or hickory sapling into two parts; but sometimes they are made of thin splints and of other species of wood.

1. A piece of whalebone in the form of a circle or ellipsis, used formerly by females to extend their petticoats; a farthingale.

2. Something resembling a hoop; a ring; any thing circular.

HOOP, v.t. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.

1. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

HOOP, v.i. to shout; to utter a loud cry, or a particular sound by way of call or pursuit.

HOOP, v.t. To drive with a shout or outcry.

1. To call by a shout or hoop.

HOOP, n. A shout; also, a measure, equal to a peck.

1. The hoopoe.



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HOOP, n. A band of wood or metal used to confine the staves of casks,tubs, &c. or for other similar purposes. Wooden hoops are usually made by splitting an oak or hickory sapling into two parts; but sometimes they are made of thin splints and of other species of wood.

1. A piece of whalebone in the form of a circle or ellipsis, used formerly by females to extend their petticoats; a farthingale.

2. Something resembling a hoop; a ring; any thing circular.

HOOP, v.t. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.

1. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

HOOP, v.i. to shout; to utter a loud cry, or a particular sound by way of call or pursuit.

HOOP, v.t. To drive with a shout or outcry.

1. To call by a shout or hoop.

HOOP, n. A shout; also, a measure, equal to a peck.

1. The hoopoe.

HOOP, n. [D. hoep, hoepel.]

  1. A band of wood or metal used to confine the staves of casks, tubs, &c. or for other similar purposes. Wooden hoops are usually made by splitting an oak or hickory sapling into two parts; but sometimes they are made of thin splints and of other species of wood.
  2. A piece of whalebone in the form of a circle or ellipsis; used formerly by females to extend their petticoats; a farthingale. Swift.
  3. Something resembling a hoop; a ring; any thing circular. Addison.

HOOP, n.

  1. A shout; also, a measure, equal to a peck. [Sw. hof.]
  2. The hoopoe.

HOOP, v.i. [Sax. heafian, heofian, to howl, to lament, to weep; also hweopan, to whip, to weep, to howl, to whoop; the latter is written also weopan, wepan, to weep; Goth. wopyan, to whoop. The Sax. heafian seems to be connected with heave, and the sense is probably to raise or throw the voice. Whether heofian and hweopan are radically the same word, is not certain; most probably they are, and whoop and weep are evidently the same. Weeping, in rude ages, is by howling loud outcries. See Whoop, the same word differently written.]

To shout; to utter a loud cry, or a particular sound by way of call or pursuit.


HOOP, v.t.

  1. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
  2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround. Shak. Grew.

HOOP, v.t.

  1. To drive with a shout or outcry. Shak.
  2. To call by a shout or hoop.

Hoop
  1. A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
  2. To bind or fasten with hoops] as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
  3. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.

    [Usually written whoop.]
  4. To drive or follow with a shout.

    "To be hooped out of Rome." Shak.
  5. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  6. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
  7. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

    Shak.
  8. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.

    Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough.

  9. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
  10. The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
  11. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.

    Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. Pope.

  12. A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.

    [Obs.]
  13. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.

    [Eng.] Halliwell.

    Bulge hoop, Chine hoop, Quarter hoop, the hoop nearest the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the intermediate hoop between these two, respectively. -- Flat hoop, a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides. -- Half-round hoop, a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside. -- Hoop iron, iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops. -- Hoop lock, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them. -- Hoop skirt, a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; -- called also hoop petticoat. -- Hoop snake (Zoöl.), a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity. -- Hoop tree (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family.

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Hoop

HOOP, noun A band of wood or metal used to confine the staves of casks, tubs, etc. or for other similar purposes. Wooden hoops are usually made by splitting an oak or hickory sapling into two parts; but sometimes they are made of thin splints and of other species of wood.

1. A piece of whalebone in the form of a circle or ellipsis, used formerly by females to extend their petticoats; a farthingale.

2. Something resembling a hoop; a ring; any thing circular.

HOOP, verb transitive To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.

1. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

HOOP, verb intransitive to shout; to utter a loud cry, or a particular sound by way of call or pursuit.

HOOP, verb transitive To drive with a shout or outcry.

1. To call by a shout or hoop

HOOP, noun A shout; also, a measure, equal to a peck.

1. The hoopoe.

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