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Definition of Scooping
1. scoop [v] - See also: scoop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scooping
Literary usage of Scooping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1860)
"M. Sedillot, of Strasburg, has, for the last two years, seized every opportunity,
in cases of diseased bone, of scooping out the affected parts, ..."
2. The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by John Eric Erichsen (1873)
"Now I hold it to be impossible by gouging, scooping, chiselling, ... Although I
do not consider the scooping away of the tumor from the antrum to be a ..."
3. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"They at once attacked it, carefully probing the softer parts with their bills,
and then vigorously assailing them, scooping ..."
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