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Scoop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle fastened to a dish, used for dipping liquors; also, a little hollow piece of wood for bailing boats.

2. An instrument of surgery.

3. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

Scoop [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lade out; properly, to take out with a scoop or with a sweeping motion.

2. He scoop'd the water from the crystal flood.

3. To empty by lading; as, he scooped it dry.

4. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; as, the Indians scoop the trunk of a tree into a canoe.

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

6. To remove, so as to leave a place hollow.

7. A spectator would think this circular mount had been actually scooped out of that hollow space.

Scoop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

3. A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.

7. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

8. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.

9. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.

Scooped [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Taken out as with a scoop or ladle; hollowed; excavated; removed so as to leave a hollow.

Scooped [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Scooper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that scoops; also, a water fowl.

Scooper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, scoops.

2. The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.

Scooping [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A net so formed as to sweep the bottom of a river.

Scooping [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Lading out; making hollow; excavating; removing so as to leave a hollow.

Scooping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913