Hoop

1. 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.
2. To drive or follow with a shout.
3. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
4. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
5. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
6. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
7. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
8. The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
9. 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.
10. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
11. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
12. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
13. 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.