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An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
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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.
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A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.
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A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
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One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.
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A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
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To strip or deprive of hoops; to take away the hoops of.
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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.
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A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
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A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net.
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Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
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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.
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To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
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