A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle fastened to a dish, used for dipping liquors; also, a little hollow piece of wood for bailing boats.

An instrument of surgery.

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

To lade out; properly, to take out with a scoop or with a sweeping motion. He scoop’d the water from the crystal flood.

To empty by lading; as, he scooped it dry.

To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; as, the Indians scoop the trunk of a tree into a canoe. Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint.

To remove, so as to leave a place hollow. A spectator would think this circular mount had been actually scooped out of that hollow space.