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scoop 1. anything that resembles a scoop in action, such as the bucket on a dredge 2. a spoonlike surgical instrument for scraping or extracting foreign matter, etc., from the body scoop [sküp] (design engineering) Any of various ladle-, shovel-, or bucketlike utensils or containers for moving liquid or loose materials. A funnel-shaped opening for channeling a fluid into a desired path. (electricity) (mechanical engineering) A large shovel with a scoop-shaped blade.
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They saw them lay their yellow burdens in it and scoop the overturned earth back over the tops of the ingots. As they pass through this narrow strait, the Indians, standing on the rocks, or on the end of wooden stages projecting from the banks, scoop them up with small nets distended on hoops and attached to long handles, and cast them on the shore. It was, after all, something of a scoop, for not one of the other passengers had been found who was in a position to say anything at all about him. |
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