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Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc..

Pall-mall :: Pall-mall (n.) A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall..

Baby Jumper :: Baby jumper () A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese..

Unhoop :: Unhoop (v. t.) To strip or deprive of hoops; to take away the hoops of.

Whoop :: Whoop (v. i.) To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough..

Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Howp :: Howp (v. i.) To cry out; to whoop.

Whoop :: Whoop (v. t.) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

Cheese :: Cheese (n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold..

Houp :: Houp (n.) See Hoopoe.

Hoop :: Hoop (v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout..

Fyke :: Fyke (n.) A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net..

Croquet :: Croquet (n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern..

Rover :: Rover (v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball..

Farthingale :: Farthingale (n.) A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat..

Kinkhaust :: Kinkhaust (n.) Whooping cough.

Wedge-tailed :: Wedge-tailed (a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood..

Hoop :: Hoop (v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon..

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