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▪ I. scooping, vbl. n.|ˈskuːpɪŋ|
[f. scoop v.1 + -ing1.]
a. The action of the vb., in various senses.
1841Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Oct. 233 For successful scooping [in excavation] the ground usually requires loosening. 1865A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. iv. 80 The scooping out of hollows in solid rock. 1960C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 38 She sang her favourite arias..with much portamento, or luscious scooping. 1978Amer. Speech 1975 L. 301 Scooping, sliding into a tone, hitting a note on the flat side and sliding up to the proper pitch, an undesirable practice on the part of one voice in a quartet.
attrib.1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. ix. 301 The scooping power of a glacier. 1895Daily News 23 Nov. 5/6 Scooping and boring tools.
b. concr. A concavity, hollow.
1862Ansted Channel Isl. i. ii. (ed. 2) 27 Two or three such scoopings out of the surface are passed on the south⁓east coast. 1894Baring-Gould Deserts S. France I. 141 There are..the same caves and scoopings.
▪ II. scooping, ppl. a.|ˈskuːpɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That scoops, in the senses of the verb. Of a rock, the sea: That forms hollows or depressions.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 79 The shepherd leaves his unprotected flock, And flies for shelter in some scooping rock. 1828Hood Poems, To Tom Woodgate xiv, Be mine the swelling, scooping sea, That is both hill and dale! 1864J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 44 The poor trout were flung out with scooping hands.
b. scooping avocet = scooper 1 b.
1768Pennant Brit. Zool. (1776) II. 425 Scooping Avoset. 1828Fleming Brit. Anim. 101.
Hence ˈscoopingly adv., so as to resemble a scoop.
1750G. Hughes Barbados 232 These leaves turn very scoopingly inward on the upper side. |