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   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.
   
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   2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
   
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   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.
   
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   Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. Pope.
   
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   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.]
   
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   5. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. [Eng.]  Halliwell.
   
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   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 (Zool.), 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, 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”.
   
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   2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.  Shak.
   
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   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.]
   
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   2. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
   
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   Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough.
   
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   Hoop, v. t. [Written also whoop.]
   1. To drive or follow with a shout. “To be hooped out of Rome.”  Shak.
   
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   2. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
   
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   Hoop, n.
   1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
   
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   2. (Zool.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
   
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    Hoopoe (?), Hoopoo (?) , n. [So called from its cry; cf. L. upupa, Gr. , D. hop, F. huppe; cf. also G. wiedenhopf, OHG. wituhopfo, lit., wood hopper.] (Zool.) A European bird of the genus Upupa (Upupa epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure, and a slender down-curving bill. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.