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What does "scoop" mean?

Scoop: A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
  2. 3.A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake.
  3. 4.A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  4. 5.The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling. Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
  5. 6.To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden.
  6. 7.To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
  7. 8.To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation. Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. Arbuthnot.

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