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Pronunciation : Scoop
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch?ppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.]
Definition : 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. (Surg.)

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

4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake.

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. Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Scoop
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. scopen. See Scoop, n.]
Definition : 1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden.

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

3. 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Scooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913