Category:Scoop

Scoop, n. Etym: [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.)

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.

Scoop Scoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping.] Etym: [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.