Hoop
Hoop , noun
[Old English hope; akin to Dutch hoep, hoepel.]
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.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
3.
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.
4.
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. [Obsolete]
5.
An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. [English] — Halliwell
Collocations (8)
Bulge hoop or Chine hoop or 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 (Zoology) , 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 (Botany) , a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family.
Hoop , transitive verb
1.
To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
2.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround. — Shakespeare
Hoop , intransitive verb
[Old English houpen; compare French houper to hoop, to shout; -- a hunting term, prob. from houp, an interj. used in calling. Compare Whoop.]
1.
To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
2.
To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
Collocations (1)
Hooping cough (Medicine) , See Whooping cough.
Hoop , transitive verb
[Written also whoop.]
1.
To drive or follow with a shout.
To be hooped out of Rome.
2.
To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
Hoop , noun
1.
A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
2.
(Zoology) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.