a large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.-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.-a spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.-a place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.-a sweep; a stroke; a swoop.-the act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.-to take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.-to empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.-to make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.