Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thin, pliable stick or sapling used for making barrel-hoops.
- noun A light stick used by children for rolling a hoop.
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Examples
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He had drawn out the plan of attack on a piece of paper, which was rolled up round a hoop-stick.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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He had drawn out the plan of attack on a piece of paper, which was rolled up round a hoop-stick.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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What little he knew of the language seemed to be recognised by the natives of the land, but what they had to say to him was as rapid as the clatter of a running boy's hoop-stick on
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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She tickles him under the arm with her hoop-stick, and turns eyes that are all serious upon his.
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"Bought it off'n Ben Rogers two weeks ago for a hoop-stick."
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"Bought it off'n Ben Rogers two weeks ago for a hoop-stick."
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. Mark Twain 1872
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Even children unconsciously stopped in their play; I saw a little boy with his hoop-stick pointed slanting toward the ground in the act of steering the hoop around the corner; and so he had stopped and was listening -- the hoop was rolling away, doing its own steering.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872
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He had drawn out the plan of attack on a piece of paper, which was rolled up round a hoop-stick.
Holiday Romance 1868
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At last he was happily got down without any accident, and then he began to beat Mr. Guppy with a hoop-stick in quite a frantic manner.
Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853
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His hoop-stick was as light as his hoop, which he never beat.
Ernest Bracebridge School Days William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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