Hoop
[huːp] or [hup]
Definition
(noun.) a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; 'there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse'.
(noun.) a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt.
(verb.) bind or fasten with a hoop; 'hoop vats'.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
(v. t.) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(v. i.) To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
(v. t.) To drive or follow with a shout.
(v. t.) To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
(n.) A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
(n.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
Checker: Muriel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ring.[2]. Farthingale, crinoline, hoop-skirt.
Typist: Sharif
Definition
n. a pliant strip of wood or metal formed into a ring or band for holding together the staves of casks &c.: something resembling such: a large ring of wood or metal for a child to trundle: a ring: (pl.) elastic materials used to expand the skirt of a lady's dress.—v.t. to bind with hoops: to encircle.—ns. Hoop′-ash a kind of ash much used for making hoops (same as Nettle-tree); Hooped′-pot a drinking-pot with hoops to mark the amount each man should drink; Hoop′er one who hoops casks: a cooper.
v.i. to call out.—n. Hoop′er the wild swan.
Checked by Edwin
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a hoop, foretells you will form influential friendships. Many will seek counsel of you. To jump through, or see others jumping through hoops, denotes you will have discouraging outlooks, but you will overcome them with decisive victory.
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Examples
- At last he was happily got down without any accident, and then he began to beat Mr. Guppy with a hoop-stick in quite a frantic manner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the expression forlorn hope we have made the Dutch word hoop meaning a company into hope. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The thread passes through the hoop as it is wound upon the spindle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A flanged ridge around each aperture forms a ring and affords a track for a little steel hoop called a traveller, which is sprung over the ring. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We've only got en by the edge of the hoop--steady, for God's sake! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Ever shallow, hasty, and positive, he went home quite cock-a-hoop. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The forlorn hoop was a body of men, usually volunteers, selected from different regiments, to lead an assault, enter a breach or perform some other service attended with uncommon peril. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The different parts of these are called the tube, jacket, hoops, locking rings, trunnion rings, wire winding, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Over the jacket lie the hoops, six or seven of these being used in a big gun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is useful for the making of chains, tools, carriage axles, joining shafting, wires, and pipes, mending bands, tires, hoops, and lengthening and shortening bolts, bars, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The parts of such a gun are known as the liner, the tube, the jacket and the hoops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The liner and tube are then placed upright in an assembling pit, the jacket and hoops shrunk on, and the finishing work done, as above said, the breech mechanism being finally fitted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He sat on a bench, with his hoops and ruffles and high powdered head, his point laced lappets, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Perched on its eternal hills, white and domed and solid, massed together and hooped with high gray walls, the venerable city gleamed in the sun. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This is one of the iron-bar type, hooped by iron rings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Warren