SCOOP, noun 1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle fastened to a dish, used for dipping liquors; also, a little hollow piece of wood for bailing boats. 2. An instrument of surgery. 3. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. SCOOP, verb transitive 1. To lade out; properly, to take out with a scoop or with a sweeping motion. He scoop'd the water from the crystal flood. 2. To empty by lading; as, he scooped it dry. 3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; as, the Indians scoop the trunk of a tree into a canoe. Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop so as to hold above a pint. 4. To remove, so as to leave a place hollow. A spectator would think this circular mount had been actually scooped out of that hollow space.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI