Vocabulary : Hooking to Hooped

Hooking : of Hook
Hooklet : A little hook.
Hook-nosed : Having a hooked or aquiline nose.
Hooky : Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks. ;; A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to run away, to play truant.
Hool : Whole.

Hoolock : A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.
Hoom : Home.
Hoonoomaun : An Indian monkey. See Entellus.
Hoop : A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc. ;; A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese. ;; A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural. ;; 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. ;; An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. ;; To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon. ;; To clasp; to encircle; to surround. ;; To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. ;; To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop. ;; To drive or follow with a shout. ;; To call by a shout or peculiar cry. ;; A shout; a w
Hooped : of Hoop

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