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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..

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 (n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks..

Chin Cough :: Chin cough () Whooping cough.

Whoop :: Whoop (v. i.) To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl..

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

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

Whoop :: Whoop (n.) A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl..

Cask :: Cask (n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel..

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..

Whooped :: Whooped (imp. & p. p.) of Whoo.

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

Whooper :: Whooper (n.) One who, or that which, whooops..

Kinkhaust :: Kinkhaust (n.) Whooping cough.

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

Hoopoe :: Hoopoe (n.) Alt. of Hoopo.

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..

Hooped :: Hooped (imp. & p. p.) of Hoo.

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..

Hooper :: Hooper (n.) One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

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