scroop

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Only the "scroop" of the runners and jingle of the sleigh-bells seemed to be hammered into the brain, for all eternity.

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  1. To emit a harsh or grating sound: grate; creak.
  2. A harsh sound or cry. This man could mimic every word and scroop and shout that might, be supposed proper to such a scene [the pulling of teeth]. Dickens, Household Words, XXX. 139.
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  1. Imitative. Cf. hoop, whoop, roop.
  2. from scroop, v.
 

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