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inhooping

inhooping is the present participle and gerund of inhoop.

Meaning of inhoop

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...

Questions about inhooping

What is inhooping the present participle and gerund of?
Inhooping is the present participle and gerund of inhoop.

Words near inhooping in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inhooping (page history and authors); inhoop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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