Noun

(en noun)

A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

# A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.

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# A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.

#* 1843 , (Thomas Hood), (The Song of the Shirt)

band and gusset and seam

# A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.

# A belt or strap that is part of a machine.

(label) A strip of decoration.

# A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.

# In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

to join in Hymen's bands

A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(label) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

(label) A part of the radio spectrum.

(label) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.

(obsolete) A bond.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

thy oath and band

(label) Pledge; security.

(Spenser)

A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.

Noun

(en noun)

A group of musicians, especially (a) wind and percussion players, or (b) rock musicians.

A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; i.e. marching band.

A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).

* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

"My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."

(anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.

* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

(Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.

Noun

(en noun)

A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.

A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.

the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese

(mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.

* Alexander Pope

stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale

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.

(UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.

(Halliwell)

(plural) The game of basketball.

A hoop earring.

(Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“ hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.

Noun

(en noun)

A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

The hoopoe.