scoop (skop)

[ G. schüppe ), a shovel, also a spade at cards, Sw. skopa, a scoop; cf. G. schöpfe, a scoop, ladle, schoppen, a pint measure; perhaps connected with shove, shovel. Some compare Gr. σκύφος, a cup, σκάφος, a hollow ve el, A Hence-2. A coal-scuttle. [Eng.] -3. A ba- sin-like cavity, natural or artificial; a hollow. Some had lain in the scoop of the rock, With glittering ising-stars inlaid. 5406 Love scooped this boat, and with soft motion Piloted it round the circumfluous ocean. Shelley, Witch of Atlas, xxxiii. 5. To take with a dredge, as oysters; dredge. [U. S.]-6. In newspaper slang, to get the better of (a rival or rivals) by securing and publishing a piece of news in advance of it or them; get a "beat" on. See scoop, n., 8. II. in trans. 1. To use a scoop; dredge, as for oysters. [U. S.] -2. To feed; take food, as the right or whalebone whale. See scooping, n. [Sailors' slang.] horrible sight has never been witne ed ashore or afloat Again, the whale may be scooping or feeding - a more than a large right whale with contracted upper lips, exposing the long layers of baleen, taking his food. Fisheries of U. S., V. ii. 264. Scooping avoset. See avoset, 1. scooper (sköper), n. [ One who or that which scoops; specifically, a tool used by engravers on wood for cleaning out the white parts of a block. It somewhat resembles a small chisel, but is rounded underneath instead of being flat.-2. The scooping avoset: so called from the peculiar shape of the bill.