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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Scoop

Scōop, n.

noun

n. [D. schop, a shovel, L. Ger. schoppe, schüppe, schippe, id., Sw. skopa, a scoop, a basting ladle, Dan. skufle, a shovel, allied to Ger. schieben, schoppen, Eng. shove, Sw. skufla, and Ger. schöpfen, L. Ger. & D. scheppen, to draw water, to scoop.]

  1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquors; a vessel for bailing boats.
  2. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped vessel, used to extract certain foreign bodies. Dunglison.
  3. A place hollowed out; a basin-like cavity; a hollow.

Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. Drake. 4. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. Shak.

Scōop, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. SCOOPED (skōopt); p. pr. & vb. n. SCOOPING.] 1. To take out with a scoop, or with a sweeping motion; to lade out. He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden.

  1. To empty by lading; as, he scooped it dry.
  2. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.

Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop so as to hold above a pint. Arbuthnot.