SCOOPED
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scooped
simple past tense and past participle of scoop
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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.)
Definition: 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.] 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition