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The layers in tubs will vary greatly, the butter being made at different times; so, to try if the whole tub be good, the cask should be unhooped, and the butter tried between the staves.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

In front of the jacket a single row of hoops is shrunk on the tube and extends toward the muzzle, leaving 91 inches of the muzzle end of the tube unhooped.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 by Various

And thereupon she unhooped the portière, which consisted of two curtains, and drew them right across the door.

From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence