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- verb Present participle of
scroop .
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Examples
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Only other person on Promenade a fisher-boy scrooping over the tiles in _sabots_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892 Various
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Mrs. Goudie and Mary pushed back their chairs with a horrid scrooping noise, Mavis got up briskly, the baby awoke and began to cry.
The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902
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Yet no one opened the great oak door; and Angela had a sudden sinking at the heart as the slow minutes passed and brought no sound of footsteps within, no scrooping of a bolt to betoken the opening of the door.
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The white dress was no longer motionless, and in the unnatural stillness of the hot night Mrs. Powell heard the distant, scrooping noise of a hinge revolving slowly, as if guided by a cautious hand.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863
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