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 Scoop n.
 1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
 2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
 3. Surg. A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
 4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
    Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.   --J. R. Drake.
 5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
 6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
 8. an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat. [Newspaper or laboratory cant]
 Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.
 Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.