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  1. noun A circular band of metal or wood put around a cask or barrel to bind the staves together.
  2. noun A large wooden, plastic, or metal ring, especially one used as a plaything or for trained animals to jump through.
  3. noun One of the lightweight circular supports for a hoop skirt.
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  1. Middle English hop.

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  1. from Middle English hoope, hope, a hoop, from Anglo-Saxon *hōp, not found in the same sense of ‘hoop,’ but what seems to be essentially the same word is found in comp., fen-hōp, mōr-hōp (poetical), a hollow or pool, or a mound or hummock, or more prob. a recess, in a fen or moor; hōp-gehnǣst (poetical), the dashing of the waves (against the shore of a bay ?), deriv. hōpig (poetical), in hills and hollows (of the waves); also in compound place-names, as Eást-hōp, English Easthope, Bethlinghōp, etc. (see hope, 2); further in comp. hōp-pāda, in a gloss, i. e. a ‘hoop-tunic,’ or circular cloak (?); = OFries. hōp, a hoop, band, = North Friesic hop, a hoop, band, ring, = Dutch hoep (also diminutive hoepel), a hoop, = Icelandic hōp, a small landlocked bay or inlet (named apparently from its circular form), later English hope, a bay or inlet: see hope and hope. Root unknown.
  2. from Middle English hoopen; from the noun.
  3. Also whoop, houpe, hoope; from French huppe, Old French huppe, hupe = Italian upupa, formerly also upega, from Latin upupa = Greek ἔποψ, a hoopoe; prob. orig. imitative of the bird's cry; hence the variation of forms. Cf. Old High German wituhopfo, - hoffo, Middle High German witehopfe, German wiedehopf, later apparently Middle Dutch weedhoppe, wedehoppe (also simply weede, wede, and hoppe, Dutch hop), a hoopoe, literally ‘woodhopper,’ from Old High German witu, = Anglo-Saxon widu, wudu, English wood, + Old High German *hopfōn, Middle High German G. hopfen = Anglo-Saxon hoppian, English hop; but the second element may have been suggested by the imitative name. Cf. Servian hupak, hupac, hoopoe; the general Slavic name is also imitative, in another form, Old Bulgarian vŭdodŭ, vŭdidŭ, Bohemian dud, Polish dudek, Russian udodŭ, Little Russian vdod, vudvud, udod, odud, udul, etc. See hoopoe, the form now in use.
  4. Perhaps another use of hoop.
 

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