1. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround. Shak.
HOOP Hoop, v. i. Etym: [OE. houpen; cf. F. houper to hoop, to shout; — a hunting term, prob. fr. houp, an interj. used in calling. Cf. Whoop.]
1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. [Usually written whoop.]
2. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop. Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough.
HOOP
Hoop, v. t. Etym: [Written also whoop.]
1. To drive or follow with a shout. "To be hooped out of Rome." Shak.
2. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
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Hoop, n.
1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.