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Definition of Scrooped
1. scroop [v] - See also: scroop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrooped
Literary usage of Scrooped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1904)
"We could count the rivets in her plates as we scrooped by, and the little drops
of dew gathered below them. " Wonder why they're always barks — always steel ..."
2. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research by Society for Psychical Research (1888)
"It was a water meter, and somehow the valve had got rusty, and every time so many
feet of gas had passed through the meter the valve went over, and scrooped ..."
3. An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope (1879)
"... of Lady scrooped future hopes. Lady Scroope and Lady Sophia would each have
thought that it was wicked to do so. But the two women bad been fussy, ..."
4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1904)
"We could count the rivet« in her plates as we scrooped by, and the little drops
of dew gathered below them. " Wonder why they're always barques— always ..."
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