hoop
noun
a circular band or ring of metal, wood, or other stiff material.
have hooped
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present perfectof hoop.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In order to bring all parts of a great mass of metal into simultaneous tension, Blakely and others have hooped an inner tube with rings having a successively higher initial tension.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
