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inhoop

inhoop verb: to confine or enclose as with a hoop or hoops; coop up.

Verb

inhoop (third-person singular simple present inhoops, present participle inhooping, simple past and past participle inhooped)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To confine or enclose as with a hoop or hoops; coop up.
    • His cocks do win the battle still of mine, When it is all to nought; and his quails ever Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Forms of inhoop

third-person singular presentinhoops
present participleinhooping
past participleinhooped
pastinhooped

Origin of inhoop

From in- + hoop.

Questions about inhoop

What does inhoop mean?
Inhoop means to confine or enclose as with a hoop or hoops; coop up.
What part of speech is inhoop?
Inhoop is a verb.
What is the past tense of inhoop?
The past tense of inhoop is inhooped.

Words near inhoop in the dictionary

  1. inhomogeneity
  2. inhomogeneous
  3. inhomogeneously
  4. inhomogenous
  5. inhomogenously
  6. inhoop
  7. inhooped
  8. inhooping
  9. inhoops
  10. inhospitability
  11. inhospitable

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