Scoop (?), n. [OE. scope, of
Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel,
G. schüppe, and also to E. shove. See
Shovel.] 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.) 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.
Scoop, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Scooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Scooping.] [OE. scopen. See Scoop,
n.] 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.
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