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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOOP, n. 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, 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
2: 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" [syn: hoop, ring]
3: a small arch used as croquet equipment [syn: wicket, hoop]
4: horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball [syn: basket, basketball hoop, hoop] v
1: bind or fasten with a hoop; "hoop vats"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English h?p; akin to Middle Dutch hoep ring, hoop Date: 12th century 1. a circular strip used especially for holding together the staves of containers or as a plaything 2. a. a circular figure or object ; ring b. the rim of a basketball goal; broadly the entire goal 3. a circle or series of circles of flexible material used to expand a woman's skirt 4. basketball — usually used in plural • hooplike adjective II. transitive verb Date: 15th century to bind or fasten with or as if with a hoop • hooper noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 a circular band of metal, wood, etc., esp. for binding the staves of casks etc. or for forming part of a framework. 2 a a ring bowled along by a child. b a large ring usu. with paper stretched over it for circus performers to jump through. 3 an arch of iron etc. through which the balls are hit in croquet. 4 hist. a a circle of flexible material for expanding a woman's petticoat or skirt. b (in full hoop petticoat) a petticoat expanded with this. 5 a a band in contrasting colour on a jockey's blouse, sleeves, or cap. b Austral. colloq. a jockey. --v.tr. 1 bind with a hoop or hoops. 2 encircle with or as with a hoop. Phrases and idioms: be put (or go) through the hoop (or hoops) undergo an ordeal. hoop-iron iron in long thin strips for binding casks etc. hoop-la 1 Brit. a game in which rings are thrown in an attempt to encircle one of various prizes. 2 sl. commotion. 3 sl. pretentious nonsense. Etymology: OE hop f. WG 2. var. of WHOOP.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hoopoe Hoop"oe, Hoopoo Hoop"oo, n. [So called from its cry; cf. L. upupa, Gr. ?, D. hop, F. huppe; cf. also G. wiedenhopf, OHG. wituhopfo, lit., wood hopper.] (Zo["o]l.) A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hoop Hoop, n. [OE. hope; akin to D. 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. --Pope. 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. [Obs.] 5. 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hoop Hoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooping.] 1. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon. 2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hoop Hoop, v. i. [OE. houpen; cf. F. houper to hoop, to shout; -- a hunting term, prob. fr. houp, an interj. used in calling. Cf. Whoop.] 1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. [Usually written whoop.] 2. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop. Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hoop Hoop, v. t. [Written also whoop.] 1. To drive or follow with a shout. ``To be hooped out of Rome.'' --Shak. 2. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hoop Hoop, n. 1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hoops) 1. A hoop is a large ring made of wood, metal, or plastic. N-COUNT 2. If someone makes you jump through hoops, they make you do lots of difficult or boring things in order to please them or achieve something. He had the duty receptionist almost jumping through hoops for him. But to no avail. PHRASE: V inflects

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Ring, circlet, band. 2. Farthingale, crinoline, hoop-skirt, hoop-petticoat. II. v. a. 1. Bind, fasten with hoops, put hoops upon or around. 2. Clasp, enclose, encircle, surround.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To run the hoop; an ancient marine custom. Four or more boys having their left hands tied fast to an iron hoop, and each of them a rope, called a nettle, in their right, being naked to the waist, wait the signal to begin: this being made by a stroke with a cat of nine tails, given by the boatswain to one of the boys, he strikes the boy before him, and every one does the same: at first the blows are but gently administered; but each irritated by the strokes from the boy behind him, at length lays it on in earnest. This was anciently practised when a ship was wind-bound.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To beat. I'll well hoop his or her barrel, I'll beat him or her soundly.

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