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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..

Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop..

Ring :: Ring (n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.

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..

Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..

Hoop :: Hoop (v. t.) To call by a shout or peculiar cry.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven..

Hooper :: Hooper (n.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk..

Inhoop :: Inhoop (v. t.) To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops..

Pertussis :: Pertussis (n.) The whooping cough.

Cradling :: Cradling (n.) Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped..

Whooping :: Whooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whoo.

Tun :: Tun (n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask..

Houp :: Houp (n.) See Hoopoe.

Garth :: Garth (n.) A hoop or band.

Tonnihood :: Tonnihood (n.) The female of the bullfinch; -- called also tonyhoop.

Hoop :: Hoop (v. i.) To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop..

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..

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