Hoop vs Surcingle - What's the difference?
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A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
(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
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.
(plural) The game of basketball.
A hoop earring.
(Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“
To bind or fasten using a hoop.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
a long unpadded strap to pass over and keep in place a blanket, pack or saddle on an animal
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a piece of tack wrapped around the belly of a horse, to use when longeing, also know as lungeing; (roller in UK and Australasia)
a girdle to fasten a garment, especially a cassock
As nouns the difference between hoop and surcingle
is that hoop is a circular band of metal used to bind a barrel while surcingle is a long unpadded strap to pass over and keep in place a blanket, pack or saddle on an animal.As a verb hoop
is to bind or fasten using a hoop.hoop
English
(wikipedia hoop)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoop, hoope, from (etyl) ). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
- stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale
- (Halliwell)
hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.
Derived terms
* hula hoop * jump through hoopsVerb
(en verb)- to hoop a barrel or puncheon
- (Shakespeare)