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Definition of Scoop up

1. Verb. Take out or up with or as if with a scoop. "Scoop the sugar out of the container"

Definition of Scoop up

1. Verb. to pick up or clear up by scooping ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoop Up

Literary usage of Scoop up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"scoop with one's fingers (as of food in eating with the fingers). wufi(vo.): dip out, scoop up, ladle out (a liquid). scoop out: ..."

2. Tahiti the Goldenby Charles Augustus Keeler by Charles Augustus Keeler (1902)
"The women scoop up small river fish in baskets, and drag nets are employed to capture the finny prey of the lagoon. ..."

3. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"scoop up, to : S 50 ; S 399. 42. Scorch, to : layu, Bes. Songs. 43. ... Max, To scoop up; to scrape (Mal. kaut) : ya-kad (pr. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal KnowledgeEncyclopedias and dictionaries (1918)
"The jars thus scoop up the water and bring it to a trough on a level with the top ... a contrivance by which the cultivator is enabled to scoop up the water ..."

5. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"Don't scoop up any more!', and the elder sister, as soon as she heard it, was afraid—so they say. 7. Then when she looked to see, saying, 'Who is it who ..."

6. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"Don't scoop up any more!', and the elder sister, as soon as she heard it, was afraid—so they say. 7. Then when she looked to see, saying, 'Who is it who ..."

7. Recollections from a Busy Life: 1843-1911 by Ivory George Kimball (1912)
"I saw her again and again scoop up the water with her side, her whole length, the way I have seen a man scoop up a bucket full of water, and I saw two seas ..."

8. Practical Aeronautics: An Understandable Presentation of Interesting and by Charles Brian Hayward (1912)
"To scoop up water ballast, it will be necessary to drive the ship down near the level of the ocean, which may be done by tilting either pair of adjustable ..."

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