Noun
horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to throw the basketball

Noun
a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse"

Noun
a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt

Noun
a small arch used as croquet equipment

Verb
bind or fasten with a hoop; "hoop vats"

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

v. t.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

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

v. i.
To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.

v. t.
To drive or follow with a shout.

v. t.
To call by a shout or peculiar cry.

n.
A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

n.
The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.

Hoop

Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale.

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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.

To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.

To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.

To drive or follow with a shout.

A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.