hoopn.1
/huːp/, U.S. /hup/ 1. figurative.1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 63 Those friends thou hast, and their adoptions tried, Graple them to thee with a hoope of steele.a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 120 What Hoope should hold vs staunch from edge to edge A th' world. View more context for this quotation
a. A circular band or ring of metal, wood, or other stiff material; esp. a circle of wood or flattened metal for binding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hoop or ring
hoopa1175
band1483
colletc1530
withe1892
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > hoop
hoopa1175
tonnel-hoop1341
garth1483
girr1611
gird1612
neck-hoop1641
the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring > of stiff material
hoopa1175
girthc1356
bail1447
garter1556
girse1591
beesc1860
a1175 Hist. Holy Rood (E.E.T.S.) 22 Ða het he wurcean ænne seolfrene hop of þrittigæ pundon..swa fela seolfrenæ hopæ.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxiv. 1066 Of persche beþ nedeful bendes and knyttels made to bynde vp vynes and hopes for tunnes.
1417 Durham MS. Almoner's Roll In j pari molarum cum hopys et rynd~spindellis.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 245/2 Hoope, vesselle byndynge (K. hope).
c1485 Inventory in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 373 ij hupes pro rota plaustri.
1522 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 17 Paid for a whope of Iron to the shafts of the churche gate iijd.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. vi. f. 28v The hoopes of his barrels cracked and brake.
1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) viii. xlii. 182 A Stoole halfe backed with a houpe.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 174 This cap..is hollow..being borne up by little hoopes, and so cooles the head.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 51. ⁋12 A vessel of gooseberry wine had burst the hoops.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 971 Model of a hoop for a mast, for the boom to work in, instead of a ‘goose-neck’.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 244 The pieces of buhr-stones..are bound with iron hoops into large millstones.
1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 70 §9 Barrels made..with such hoops as may be approved by the Fishery Board.
b. In tavern signs: see note at cock-a-hoop adj., int., and adv.
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1403 BL Add. Charter 5313 (single sheet) Vno messuagio vocato the belle on the hoop.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 31 The hert of the hop [sign of inn at Bury].
1631 Deed in J. Coleman's Bk. Catal. (1889) Two Inns in Shoreditch, one called the Cock and Hoope, the other the Holy Lambe.
c. A circular ring, often with paper stretched over it, through which acrobats or performing animals leap. Also figurative, esp. in to go (also jump) through (the) hoop(s): to undergo an ordeal or trial. Similarly to put through the hoop(s).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > circus performance > [noun] > pieces of equipment
hoop1793
bed of nails1798
garter1854
safety net1888
net1905
rag front1926
the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > undergo an ordeal
to go (also jump) through (the) hoop(s)1917
to give (make, have, etc.) grief1929
the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict
overharryeOE
aileOE
swencheOE
besetOE
traya1000
teenOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
derve?c1225
grieve1297
harrya1300
noyc1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
wrath14..
aggrievea1325
annoya1325
tribula1325
to hold wakenc1330
anguish1340
distrainc1374
wrap1380
strain1382
ermec1386
afflicta1393
cumbera1400
assayc1400
distressc1400
temptc1400
encumber1413
labour1437
infortune?a1439
stressa1450
trouble1489
arraya1500
constraina1500
attempt1525
misease1530
exercise1531
to hold or keep waking1533
try1539
to wring to the worse1542
pinch1548
affligec1550
trounce1551
oppress1555
inflict1566
overharl1570
strait1579
to make a martyr of1599
straiten1611
tribulatea1637
to put through the hoop(s)1919
snooter1923
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > cause mental pain or suffering to [verb (transitive)]
heavyc897
pineeOE
aileOE
sorryeOE
traya1000
sorrowOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
angerc1175
smarta1200
to work, bake, brew balec1200
derve?c1225
grieve?c1225
sitc1225
sweam?c1225
gnawc1230
sughc1230
troublec1230
aggrievea1325
to think sweama1325
unframea1325
anguish1340
teen1340
sowa1352
distrainc1374
to-troublea1382
strain1382
unglad1390
afflicta1393
paina1393
distressa1400
hita1400
sorea1400
assayc1400
remordc1400
temptc1400
to sit (or set) one sorec1420
overthrow?a1425
visit1424
labour1437
passionc1470
arraya1500
constraina1500
misgrievea1500
attempt1525
exagitate1532
to wring to the worse1542
toil1549
lament1580
adolorate1598
rankle1659
try1702
to pass over ——1790
upset1805
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
to put (a person) through it1855
bludgeon1888
to get to ——1904
to put through the hoop(s)1919
1793 in T. Frost Circus Life (1875) 43 Through the Hoop on Fire, fourteen feet high, by Mr. Porter and Mr. Ducrow.
1869 B. Clarke Crocker 88 When a rider..has been jumping through paper hoops held up at intervals round the ring.
1875 T. Frost Circus Life 185 All aspirants to saw-dust honours..are required to..hold hoops, balloons, banners, &c.
1914 W. W. Gibson Borderlands 55 Merry Andrew. I missed a hoop This afternoon... I've not missed A hoop since I was six. I'm forty-two.
1917 P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 192 It was his business to make money, and, when called upon, to jump through hoops and sham dead at the bidding of his wife and daughter Mae.
1919 ‘B. Cable’ Old Contemptibles 209 Then Tommy Dodd got hold of his sergeant and ‘put him through the hoop’.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 120 Hoop, through the: up for punishment.
1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon xi. 81 Let the papers jump through their hoops as much as they liked.
1930 M. Kennedy Fool of Family xxvii. 275 Disagreeable thoughts were going to assail him... If he had ever let them get hold of him he would never have got through his hoop.
1930 M. Kennedy Fool of Family xxx. 314 ‘Let's hide..upstairs...’ ‘No use. They'll all come up to look at Henry VIII's bed.’ ‘Oh, well. Then it's through the hoops.’
1938 H. Nicolson Diary 7 Apr. (1966) 333 I come back to find that the F.A. Committee have put Paul through the hoops also, asking whether he is ‘pro-Chamberlain’ or ‘pro-Eden’.
1943 R. Chandler Lady in Lake (1944) xxxix. 205 She got the men that way, she could make them jump through hoops.
1958 Economist 1 Nov. 390/2 The most controversial new legislation may still be the bill which will oblige any British government to go through the parliamentary hoop when imposing certain economic controls.
1958 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock 139 He may have jumped through the hoop right away.
1969 Times 12 May 15/5 Their..irritations are put through nightly hoops.
2.
a. Applied to rings, bands, or loops, having similar uses (see quots.); also to other contrivances for binding or confining, as ‘the enclosing case of a run of stones’ in a mill (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring > binding or confining something
curb1733
curb-plate1819
hoop1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hoops, the strong iron bindings of the anchor-stock to the shank, though square, are called hoops.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hoop,..one of the rings to which the weather-leach of a fore-and-aft sail is bent, and by which it slides on the mast or stay as the sail is hoisted or lowered.
b. A circular wooden frame in which a cheese is moulded.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese tub, vat, or mould
cheese vatOE
cheese tub1513
cheese moat1574
moat1577
cheese mould1588
chesford1596
vat1669
cheese hoop1678
chessel1721
cheesebail1730
thrusting-tub1846
hoop1857
1790 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Midland Counties I. 354 The cheese vats of this district are merely ‘hoops’ of ash, with a boarden bottom.]
1857 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1856–7 2 181 These vats warm, scald, and work the curd ready for the hoop without being removed.
1877 4th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1876–7 54 Most of the cheese made about here was bought and shipped almost as soon as it was out of the hoops.
1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. VII. 156/1 The curd..is ‘milled’ or torn into small particles, mixed with salt, and packed into a hoop or mould.
c. In a built-up gun: each of the cylindrical forgings which are shrunk upon the tube or jacket.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 160/2 By the use of wire the full benefit is obtained of the ideal thin coil or hoop.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 162/1 The interior of the jacket and other hoops are bored out in a boring-machine and finished before the exterior of the barrel is fine-turned; and so for any other hoop.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 162/2 The covering hoop [sc. of wire guns] is often not allowed any shrinkage.
3. A circle of wood or iron (originally a barrel-hoop), which is trundled along as a plaything by children.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > hoop
girr1611
trochus1706
troque1743
hoop1792
grace hoop1837
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman iv. 150 When they ought to have been spinning a top or twirling a hoop.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. §4 Trundling the hoop is a pastime of uncertain origin, but much in practice at present.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xviii. 172 The rosy children..run past with hoops.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > two pints or quart > one of equal quantities in quart pot
hoop1592
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G3 I beleeue hoopes in quart pots were inuented to that ende, that euerie man should take his hoope, and no more.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 68 The three hoopt pot, shall haue ten hoopes, and it shall be felony to drinke small beere.
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B2v The Englishmans healthes, his hoopes, cans, halfe cans [etc.].
5.
a. A measure of corn, etc., of varying capacity. Now local.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units
skep1100
strike13..
strick1421
muida1425
hoop1520
tope1530
stroke1532
anker1597
corn-hoop1660
gallon1684
acherset1701
1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. C.viiiv A mette or an hoope of oote mele.
1548 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 35 A busshelle and a whop of lyme.
1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 4 Denosmodios, in round reckoning may goe for ten peckes or hoopes with vs.
1654 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1887) IV. 129 The Jury Amerce John Maulton for a halfe hoope and a Peck vndr measure.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 26 A Hoop, a Measure containing a Peck or Quarter of a Strike. Yorksh.
1810 W. Davies Gen. View Agric. N. Wales xvii. §2. 466 In Montgomeryshire, a cylindrical vessel, containing 20 quarts, is called a hoop; two of such hoops make a strike or measure.
1845 G. Petrie Eccl. Archit. Ireland 220 A hoop [i.e. a quarter of a peck] was sold for no less than five groates.
b. A short metal cylinder used as a shape for a cake.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > ovenware > tin or pan
bake panc1350
trap?c1390
roaster1649
pattypan1660
cake pan1714
hoop1736
cake tin1771
baking tin?1775
tin1795
bake-kettle1828
bun-pana1845
brick tin1880
springform1902
tourtière1959
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. ii. 142 You must keep beating your Cake, till it goes into the Hoop.
6. A circle of flexible elastic material, as whalebone or steel, used to expand the skirt of a woman's dress; hence, the structure consisting of such hoops connected by some material, worn under a petticoat or skirt; a hoop-petticoat or -skirt.Such a structure has appeared, with modifications, in the farthingale of the 16th–17th cens., the extravagant hoop-skirt of the 18th, and the crinoline of the 19th.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > hoop
hoop1548
farthingale1552
vardingale1552
roundabouta1555
ferdegewa1556
verdugal1558
guard-infante1670
crinoline1847
tub-hoop1892
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxvijv Eight ladies in blacke veluet bordred about with gold, with hoopes from the wast douneward, and sleues ruffed.
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dviii Wyth whoopes at the skyrte.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 168 Women weare long fardingales..like hoopes, which our Women used of olde.
1717 M. Prior Alma ii. 277 The swelling hoop sustains The rich brocade.
1739 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 25 The fashionable hoops are made of the richest damask, trimmed with gold and silver, fourteen guineas a hoop.
1754 Connoisseur No. 36. ⁋3 The hoop... At present it is nearly of an oval form, and scarce measures from end to end above twice the length of the wearer.
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. v. 161 Every body wears hoops, but..'tis a melancholy consideration!—how very few can manage them.
1812 Ld. Byron Waltz xiii Hoops are no more, and petticoats not much.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xvi, in Poems (new ed.) II. 68 In teacup-times of hood and hoop, Or while the patch was worn.
1878 M. Oliphant Dress iv. 54 The hoop proper was not so abrupt as the farthingale, and the crinoline was greatly softened from the hoop.
7. A finger-ring.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun]
ringOE
beec1300
bague1477
hoop1507
woup1511
famble-cheat1567
famble1688
gem1725
fawney1819
groin1931
1507 Will of Maude Oppy (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 189 My hoope of gold made like a crown of thorn.
1520 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 117 My howpe of golde that I were on my finger.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 233/1 Houpe a greate ryng, signet.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 147 A hoope of gold, a paltry ring. View more context for this quotation
1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master ii. i, in Wks. (1874) V. 41 I know but one hoop in the world can bind us close together... A wedding-ring.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. vi. 226 She drew off a diamond hoop, and put it quietly into his hand.
1926 J. Black You can't Win xv. 199 I go in her joint and drop a hoop to one of her frowsy little brums for nine dollars.
1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 67 Hoop, ring.
8.
a. Any hoop-like or circular structure, conformation, or figure; a circle, ring, arc.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring
ringeOE
circlec1305
cerceaus1340
hoop1530
hoop-ring1545
annulus1563
ringleta1616
annule1681
zone1752
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 233/1 Houpe of a beestes fote, corne.
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome ii. f. 25v Scarce an ynchebrode hoope of heare, about their pate appeares.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 169 Saturn is remarkable for his hoop or ring, which seems to stand off from his body.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 315 His Knights around his Table in a Circle sate, d'ye see, And altogether made up one large Hoop of Chivalry.
1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds II. 41 Specimens of almost every herb under the hoop of heaven.
b. Botany. Applied to the overlapping edge of one of the valves of the frustule of the Diatomaceæ; called also the ‘girdle’.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > diatom(s) > part of
frustule1857
auxospore1884
hoop1884
vitta1888
testule1891
1884 Challenger Reports, Botany II. 3 These walls..are formed by two distinct plates or valves, each possessing its own hoop..This hoop, connecting zone or belt, may be single, double, or of complex structure.
c. U.S. Basketball. The (rim of the) basket. Also: a goal scored by throwing the ball through the basket.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > basketball > [noun] > basket
basket1892
goal1892
hoop1893
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > basketball > [noun] > goal
basket1892
goal1892
hoop1967
1893 in Z. Hollander Mod. Encycl. Basketball (1969) 8 The baskets are strong iron hoops, with braided cord netting.
1937 F. C. Allen Better Basketball ii. 29 (heading) Standardized basketball nomenclature... Baskets—not Buckets,..hoops, nets, or strings.
1967 Boston (Mass.) Herald 1 Apr. 17/1 Jim Small scored the first hoop of the game.
1969 Z. Hollander Mod. Encycl. Basketball xvii. 419 He drove for the hoop and tried to make contact while making the basket.
d. A band in contrasting colour on a jockey's blouse, sleeves, or cap.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > ring of colour > [noun]
zone1752
hoop1961
1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 228/2 Hoops, narrow bands of white or coloured silks going round the jockey's blouse; also known as Rings.
1970 Accent June 35/1 Wives try to get colours as close to those of their husbands... The Duchess of Devonshire's silks are straw with a brown hoop on the cap.
e. Australian. A jockey.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider
skipjack1608
horse racerc1618
rider1632
stager1638
jockeya1684
horse-jockey1782
jock1826
equison1846
hoop1941
pilot1976
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 36 Hoop, a jockey.
1957 ‘N. Culotta’ They're Weird Mob (1958) v. 72 Best hoop in the country.
1963 Sunday Mirror (Sydney) 20 Jan. 43/1 Glamour hoop Athol Mulley in the saddle.
1967 ‘E. McGirr’ Hearse with Horses ii. 33 Old Paddy was not a great deal more successful as a trainer than I was as a hoop.
9. A hoop- or ring-net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > other nets
stalker1389
pocketc1425
hoop-net1481
hose-net1554
gap-net1727
bag-net1777
hoop1882
skim-neta1884
1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 They [whelks] are also caught in nets called ‘hoops’ or ‘rings’.
10. Any one of the iron arches used in croquet.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > hoop
wicket1868
wire1868
hoop1872
1872 R. C. A. Prior Notes on Croquet 56 Hoop is now an established term, but is a wrong name for the arches set up on a croquet lawn.
1874 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 17 The setting or arrangement of the hoops.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > use of hands and legs > using spurs > hoop of spur
hoop1620
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1746) III. xiv. 93 Jagging his Spurs into his Horse to the very Hoops.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > hangings > canopy > specific
heaveneOE
dia1377
penthouse1517
hoopsc1520
cloth of estate, state1523
baldachin1645
dais1863
c1520 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 206 Item pro howpps pro sacrament ad summum altare, 1½d.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. Also hoop-petticoat n., hoop-stick n.
a.
hoop-bender n.
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1812 Examiner 7 Dec. 777/1 W. Rumsey,..hoop bender.
hoop-dancer n.
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1800 Sporting Mag. 15 28 His most Christian Majesty was attended by several devils, hoop-dancers and banner-bearers.
hoop-girdle n.
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1607 T. Dekker Knights Conjuring sig. K4 A streame..claspts it round about like a hoope girdle of christall.
hoop-maker n.
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1626 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Robert Claringbole of Barham, hoopemaker.
hoop-mill n.
hoop-roller n.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 339 The hoop-rollers are represented in fig. 351; the bar~rollers in fig. 352.
1884 Birmingham Daily Post 28 July 3/4 Wanted, a thoroughly experienced..Hoop Roller.
hoop-stuff n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hoop-crimping Machine, one for giving the bend to hoop-stuff to render the hoops tractable in fitting to barrels and casks.
b.
hoop-and-stave adj.
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1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 99 In the hoop-and-stave wrought iron gun.
hoop-crimping n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hoop-crimping Machine, one for giving the bend to hoop-stuff to render the hoops tractable in fitting to barrels and casks.
hoop-dressing n.
hoop-fellied adj.
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1793 Ann. Agric. 21 517 Hoop-fellied wheels.
hoop-horned adj.
hoop-ribbed adj.
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1832 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 29 Sept. 774 Beautiful cattle..hoop-ribbed, square-hipped.
hoop-riving adj.
hoop-spined adj.
hoop-splaying adj.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hoop Splaying and Bending Machine, a machine for spreading hoop-iron on one side so as to enable it to set snugly on the bilge.
C2. † hoop-caul n. Obsolete the chorion or outermost membrane enveloping the fetus before birth. † hoop-coat n. Obsolete = hoop-petticoat n. † hoop-man n. Obsolete an acrobat who performs with hoops. † hoop-sleeve n. Obsolete a wide full sleeve, as though expanded by hoops. † hoop-wheel n. Obsolete the detent-wheel of a clock.
hoop-ash n. (a) a species of ash, Fraxinus sambucifolia, the flexible stems of which are used for making hoops; (b) the American Hackberry, Celtis occidentalis (Craig 1847).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun]
ashc700
fraynec1325
wood-browna1400
wild ash1552
white ash1578
manna tree1665
black ash1673
white ash1683
water ash1709
manna ash1715
hoop-ash1763
red ash1773
shrew-ash1776
blue ash1783
swamp ash1794
weeping ash1807
green ash1810
cockscomb ash1850
Oregon ash1857
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > North American > hackberry or nettle tree
lote?1518
lote-tree1548
nettle-tree1548
lotus1551
lotus tree1601
saffron-tree1716
hagberry1737
hoop-ash1763
hackberry1779
sugar-berry1818
1763 in R. T. Durrett Louisville (1893) 132 Beginning at a hoop-ashe and buckeye.
1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 133 On the Ohio it is called Hoop Ash, and in Kentucky, Hack Berry.
1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 727 Another American species, Celtis crassifolia, often called Hackberry or Hagberry, and Hoop Ash.
hoop-back n. (a chair with) a hooped back; also attributive in hoop-back chair.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair with back > of specific type
wainscot chair1663
Windsor chair1724
slat-back1891
comb-back1901
Windsor1901
wheel-back1902
hoop-back1905
ladder-back1908
spoon-back1909
Mendlesham chair1935
1905 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. II. viii. 198 Early hoop-back chairs..were slow in obtaining favour.
1924 P. Macquoid & R. Edwards Dict. Eng. Furnit. I. 244 The tall back is reminiscent of early eighteenth century walnut chairs... A deliberate attempt at Oriental effect may be seen in..the shaping of the hoop-back.
1934 Burlington Mag. Nov. 204/1 The chair..has a splat formed of framework..the uprights continue in the top-rail so as to form a fine ‘hoop-back’.
1935 Apollo Aug. 69/1 Windsor chairs..can be divided into two main categories. The chair with the comb-back..and the chair with the hoop-back.
1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 506 The two main types of design in Windsor chairs are: the comb back and the hoop back... In the latter, the back is shaped like a bow, into which the spindles are socketed.
hoop-bee n. a burrowing bee of the genus Eucera.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > membranes, etc., of embryo or fetus > [noun] > membranes enclosing
houve1530
kell1530
cotyledon1540
chorion1545
coif1545
hoop-caul1545
shirt1545
caul1547
sillyhow1574
biggin1611
guard1611
allantoides1615
allantois1615
allantoid1633
amnios1657
amnion1667
heam1681
vitta1693
indusium1706
silly-hood1836
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. I.viv Chorion or the hoope caule.
hoop-cramp n. ‘a ring-clutch for holding the ends of a hoop which are lapped over each other’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
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hoop-driver n. a tool or machine by which the hoops of a cask are driven on.
hoop-iron n. (a) flat thin bar-iron of which hoops are made; (b) the iron rod with which a child's hoop is trundled.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > hoop > stick
hoop-iron1820
hoop-stick1852
skimmer1891
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > bar-iron > types of
osmund1295
ozimus1550
nail-rod1774
bolt-iron1793
hoop-iron1820
hooping1823
mill bar1839
larget1852
wire iron1952
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 511 A quantity of hoop-iron and rivets.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Hoop-iron,..a child's toy for trundling a hoop.
hoop-lock n. a mode of connecting the ends of a wooden hoop by interlocking notches; also one of the notches themselves.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > acrobat > others
feat-worker1617
hoop-mana1668
trampolinist1843
somersaulter1850
stilt-walker1863
escapologist1926
a1668 W. Davenant Play-house to be Let i, in Dram. Wks. (1873) IV. 24 Rich jugglers..hoop-men, And so many tom-tumblers.
hoop-net n. a fishing-net, butterfly-net, etc., held open by a hoop or ring at its mouth.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > other nets
stalker1389
pocketc1425
hoop-net1481
hose-net1554
gap-net1727
bag-net1777
hoop1882
skim-neta1884
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 192 [The] netter..had sent home..ij. hopenettes, prise viij. d.
1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish i. 11 Hoop-nets baited with frogs are let down into the water.
hoop-pine n. the Moreton Bay Pine ( Araucaria Cunninghamii) of eastern Australia (Morris).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > other conifers
juniper1748
bald cypress1785
Norfolk Island pine1803
Norfolk pine1804
taxodium1821
kahikatea1823
Moreton Bay pine1826
mai1831
matai1831
white pine1833
podocarp1846
black rue1864
plum fir1866
cephalotaxus1883
hoop-pine1884
mountain hemlock1884
tide-land spruce1891
kahika1921
Leyland's cypress1933
Metasequoia1941
1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales xv. 33 (heading) Araucaria. (Natural Order Coniferae.)..A. Cunninghamii.—Moreton Bay Pine; Colonial Pine; Hoop Pine.— A noble tree with a pyramidal or somewhat flattened head.
1920 B. Cronin Timber Wolves i. 21 Well, what wood are they using for their matches now? I'll tell you. Their substitute is Queensland hoop pine, and I ain't heard any complaints yet.
1956 M. L. West Gallows on Sand xv. 153 I showed her the great hoop-pines, whose seeds had been carried by birds from the mainland [of Australia].
1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 25/1 Another Australian species is the Richmond-river-pine or hoop-pine (A. cunninghamii), the latter name deriving from its bark, which has horizontal cracks in encircling bands.
hoop-pole n. a smooth straight sapling of green wood for making hoops.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > stick, twig, or rod > for other uses
winding1405
hoop-pole1645
hoop-stick1678
rack-stick1821
long small1852
frithles1881
1645 Dedham Rec. 112 Sam Milles hath lib[er]tie to cut 400 lengthes of hoope poles on the common.
1703 Suffield Doc. Hist. 145 Any person, that shall presume..to cut..and carry away hoop-polls, from off any of our commons.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon x. 247 Used for hop-poles, hoop-poles, hurdles, faggots, and charcoal.
1845 in C. Cist Cincinnati Misc. 219 I came to a thick piece of brush, in short, a perfect thicket of hoop-poles.
1885 Rep. Indian Affairs 206 They..obtain their living by farming and cutting stave-bolts, hoop-poles, and cord-wood.
hoop-ring n. a ring consisting of a plain band; (also) a finger-ring encircled with stones in a cut-down setting.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring
ringeOE
circlec1305
cerceaus1340
hoop1530
hoop-ring1545
annulus1563
ringleta1616
annule1681
zone1752
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > other types of ring
kine-ringc1225
pontificala1500
hoop-ring1545
death's head1577
ring of remembrance1659
serjeant's ring1690
garter-ring1709
bath-ring1771
solitaire1832
regard ring1853
key ring1856
bodylet1870
portrait ring1877
tower-ring1877
whistle-ring1877
marquise1885
princess-ring1886
dinner ring1890
cluster ring1897
eternity ring1939
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. I.ii It is compassed with this wrapper, as with a broode hooperyng.
1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. F Good Madam what shall he doe with a hoop ring, And a sparke of diamond in it.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. xv. 293 She saw herself with..a brilliant exhibition of hoop rings on her finger. View more context for this quotation
hoop-shave n. a kind of spoke-shave for dressing hoop-stuff.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > for curved surfaces
spokeshave1510
hollow-plane1678
round1793
fork-staff-plane1815
howel1846
compass-plane1849
spout plane1855
concave-plane1874
hoop-shave1885
1885 St. James's Gaz. 2 Jan. 6/2 The long-bladed hoop-shave, with the double handle.
hoop-shaver n. (a) one who dresses wood for hoops; (b) a name given to a species of wood-boring bees.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > other woodworkers
rough-hewer1574
hoop-shaver1688
timber-taster1803
spaller1843
pump log borer1857
stamp-cutter1858
creosoter1889
timberman1890
worm-eater1890
slabby1907
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > bee that bores wood
hoop-shaver1688
1688 London Gaz. No. 2318/4 A Man of about 30 years old..by Trade a Hoopshaver, or Lathrender.
a1793 G. White Observ. Insects in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 227 It strips off the pubes,..shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver.
1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) viii. 180 One of the wood-boring bees..We will call it the Hoop-shaver.
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hoop-shell n. a shell of the genus Trochus, a top-shell.
hoop-skirt n. = hoop-petticoat n.; also figurative.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > underskirt > stiffened or expanded
hoop-petticoat1711
hooped petticoat1712
crinoline1847
hoop-skirt1857
Malakoff1861
1857 ‘K. R. Ockside’ & ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Hist. & Rec. Elephant Club 193 Lady with hoop-skirt hails the driver.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1118/2 The modern hoop-skirt is formed of braid-covered flat steel-wire hoops, united by tapes and shaped upon a former.
1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus I. 735 The hoop-skirt gradually waned until the opposite extreme was reached.
1896 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 15 Aug. We have raked the old ash heap of failure..and found an old human hoop skirt who has failed as a business man.
1906 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 19 July 1 Populism was a ‘hoopskirt’ article of statesmanship.
1916 E. Pound Lustra 54 You're a very depleted fashion, A hoop-skirt, a calash.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of
poke1402
foresleeve1538
long sleeve1538
lumbard1542
puller out1543
maunch1550
hand sleeve1585
French sleeve1592
poke sleeve1592
puff1601
trunk sleeve1603
stock-sleeve1611
hoop-sleeve1614
puff sleevec1632
short sleeve1639
hanging sleeve1659
engageants1690
jockey-sleeve1692
pudding-sleeve1704
Amadis1814
gigot1824
leg of mutton1824
bishop sleeve1829
mutton-leg sleeve1830
balloon sleeve1837
gigot-sleeve1837
bag-sleeve1844
pagoda sleeve1850
mameluke sleeve1853
angel sleeve1859
elbow-sleeve1875
sling-sleeve1888
sleevelet1889
pagoda1890
bell-sleeve1892
kimono sleeve1919–20
dolman1934
1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widow (5th impr.) sig. F2v Next terme he walkes his hoopsleeue gown to the Hall.
hoop-snake n. a non-venomous American snake, Farancia abacura, popularly believed to roll like a hoop; = horn-snake n. (b) at horn n. Compounds 3.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > farancia abacura (hoop-snake)
horn-snake1694
wampum snake1737
horned snake1775
hoop-snake1784
1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. 265 From the above circumstance, peculiar to themselves, they have also derived the appellation of hoop snakes.
1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 380/2 I never believed in the existence of hoop-snakes neither, until I went out into the western country.
1937 A. H. Verrill Strange Reptiles ii. 7 Thousands of otherwise intelligent and educated persons believe in the mythical ‘hoop snake’ which is supposed to take its tail in its mouth and roll like a hoop with incredible speed.
1956 C. H. Pope Reptile World 156 Tens of thousands of country people see hoop snakes rolling about like hoops, but these snakes quickly stop rolling and crawl when a herpetologist looms in sight.
hoop stress n. the stress in a cylinder or in a spherical shell corresponding to the hoop tension.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > other specific types of stress
shear1850
shear strain1856
bending stress1858
proof strain1858
proof stress1862
shearing stress1869
shear stress1872
water stress1895
slip1900
fibre stress1905
hoop stress1909
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hoop stress.
1930 Engineering 23 May 679/2 S is the apparent hoop stress.
1966 C. C. Barnes Power Cables (ed. 2) xii. 179 The maximum pressure in the cable is therefore dictated by the hoop stress developed in the sheath.
1973 Sci. Amer. Dec. 18/1 The tensile strength must be sufficient to withstand the ‘hoop stress’ resulting from centrifugal forces, otherwise the [fly]wheel would fly apart.
hoop tension n. the circumferential tension in a transverse section of a cylinder or in a spherical shell subjected to radial pressure.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > tension > specific
thermo-tension1847
hoop tension1896
1896 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. (ed. 6) 545 The stresses upon a gun are a radial stress or ‘pressure’; a tangential stress, or hoop tension..; a longitudinal stress.
1902 Kynoch Jrnl. Oct.–Nov. 17/1 Since the ratio of the inner to outer radius is now 1·595, the hoop tension at the inner surface = 62·8 tons.
1950 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 54 133 The earliest specimens of these [parachutes]..took account of ‘hoop tensions’, ‘pressure across the fabric’, etc.
hoop-tree n. a semi-tropical low tree, Melia sempervirens (Miller 1884).
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Detent-Wheel, or Hoop-Wheel in a Clock, is that which has a Hoop almost round it, wherein there is a Vacancy at which the Clock locks.
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hoop-withe n. (also hoop-withy) a plant of the genus Rivina (Craig 1847); (also) Colubrina asiatica (Miller 1884).
hoop-wood n. a tree yielding wood suitable for making hoops; (in Jamaica) Calliandra latifolia; (in the United States) the Hoop-ash; the black ash, Fraxinus nigra, or the winterberry, Ilex laevigata; (in Jamaica) Zygia latifolia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > names applied to various types of trees or shrubs
whitewood1562
yellowwood1583
lightwood1597
redwood1693
hoop-wood1756
stave-wood1778
whistle-wood1825
whip-cropa1850
pepperwood1858
white tree1863
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 279 Horse-wood, or Hoop-wood... The wood is pretty tough, and sometimes cut for hoops.
1770 G. Washington Writings (1889) II. 302 I marked two maples, an elm, and hoop-wood tree..I also marked..an ash and hoop-wood.
1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. (1898) 21 We get out at our ushal time; at ten miles pased a point of Rocks and a Hoop wood tree on them.
1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 622 Winterberry—Ilex lævigata..is also called the Smooth winterberry and Hoopwood.
1920 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica IV. 150 (heading) Z[ygia] latifolia..Horse wood, hoop wood.
Derivatives
hooped adj.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > ring of colour > [adjective]
ring-straked1568
ring-streaked1647
ringled1776
zoned1792
ringly1800
zonated1803
ringy1843
zonate1866
hooped1898
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > for specific people > other
motley1566
uniform1807
groomish1843
hooped1898
come-to-Jesus1908
semi-sports1929
casual1939
scrub1954
1898 Dorling's List Epsom Races 27 May 1/3 Rose hoops, rose cap..black hooped sleeves.
1970 Accent June 35/2 (caption) Maroon hooped sleeves.
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U.S. colloquial. In singular and plural. The game of basketball. Cf. sense 8c.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > basketball > [noun]
basketball1892
hoop1922
roundball1936
1922 Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat 20 Dec. 5/2 (headline) Woodland-Sacramento Legion to play hoop... Basketball players of the Oregon Agricultural School will appear at the state armory against the American Legion basketball team.
1977 J. Sayles Union Dues xxiv. 277 Shooting a righteous game of hoop just when the sport was swinging into popularity didn't hurt any.
1991 Sports Illustr. 4 Mar. 79/1 Rosen loves hoops with the single-mindedness that some aging men have for young women.
1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Aug. 46/2 With the blessing of the King [of Bhutan]—who has had videotapes of N.B.A. games shipped to him from New York for the past several years—hoop is huge in Thimphu.
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hoopn.2
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > upupa epops (hoopoe)
hoop1481
upupa1601
whooping bird1607
hoopoe1668
thuet1688
whoopcat1694
whoophooper1694
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xvi. 102 The huppe or lapwynche is a byrd crested, whiche is moche in mareys & fylthes.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Hupe, a bird called a Houpe.
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Abubilla A bird called a Hoope. Some thinke it to be the Lapwing.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 287 The Houpe or Vpupa..is a nasty and filthy bird..but a goodly faire crest or comb it hath.
1607 W. N. Barley-breake sig. D4v Rookes, Pies, and Oopes.
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 92 That Bird which the Latines call Upupa, the English a Whoope.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 106 When Tereus was turned into an Upupa, or Hoopebird.
1718 S. Ockley Hist. Saracens II. 380 Solomon, and the Queen of Sheba..had a Bird called Hudhud, that is, the Houp, who was the Messenger of their Amours.
2. A local name for the Bullfinch. [It is not certain that this is the same word: compare the names alp n.2, nope n.1 (= an ope).]
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Pyrrhula (bullfinch)
alpa1425
owpe?a1513
bullfinch1570
awbe1576
nope1611
mawp1654
woop1668
hoop1669
pope1763
tawny1847
thick-bill1847
leaf-finch1869
plum bird1879
plum-budder1879
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 266 Kill the Opes or Bull finches that feed on the buds of Fruit-trees.
1798 F. Leighton MS. Let. to J. Boucher 11 May (Shropsh. Words) A Bullfinch—near Bath it is called a Hoop: in Norfolk an Olph.
1845 Peter Parley's Ann. 36 [The bullfinch] in some places..is called the Thickbill, the nope, and the hoop. It has a wild hooping note.
1848 Zoologist 6 2290 The bullfinch is in G[loucestershire] a ‘hoop’.
3. Also in combination whoopcat n. Obsolete,† †whoophooper n. [compare hoopoe n.] = sense 1.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > upupa epops (hoopoe)
hoop1481
upupa1601
whooping bird1607
hoopoe1668
thuet1688
whoopcat1694
whoophooper1694
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. ix. 41 O' my word this is a filthy Whoophooper. Tush, speak softly, said Ædituus,..he has a pair of Ears,..What then, return'd Panurge, so hath a Whoopcat.
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hoopv.
1. transitive. To bind or fasten round with a hoop or hoops; to confine with hoops.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with hoop or ring
hoopc1440
ring1838
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > surround with > with a hoop
hoopc1440
coop16..
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 245/2 Hoopyn, or settyn hoopys on a vesselle.
1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 4 §10 Euery bere brewer may kepe..coupers, to hoope and amende his barrelles.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. I3v And twere not hoopt with steel, my brest wold break.
1674 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. Northern Countries 18 A Tub of Wood, hoop'd about with Iron..in which we were let down into the Mine.
1693 R. Gould Corrupt. Times 26 Tho your Tomb be hoop'd with Lead.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. ii. 89 The music of a cooper, hooping a flour barrel.
1887 H. Caine Deemster II. xxx. 315 The smith was hooping a cart-wheel.
2. transferred and figurative. To surround or confine as with a hoop; to encircle, embrace; to bind together or unite, as the staves of a tub.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > surround with > with a hoop > as with a hoop
hoopa1542
inhoopa1616
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 94 All tho thy hed were howpt with gold.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 439 If euer henceforth, thou..hope his body more, with thy embraces. View more context for this quotation
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 457 An Island is a part of the Earth..hoopt as it were with a watery Girdle.
1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1892) I. 107 During the war of Independence, while the pressure of an external enemy hooped us together.
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