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A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. [Eng.]

Low shoes fastened with lacings. Bale tie, a fastening for the ends of a hoop for a bale.

y the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.

A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.

ve around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.

The female of the bullfinch; -- called also tonyhoop. [Prov. Eng.]

sive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England. The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour. Milton.

the persons of men. Ezek. xxvii. 13. To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and watches. Cooper.

ed; as, a deer trail. They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail. Cooper. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! Shak.

yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason. O passing traitor, perjured and unjust! Shak.…

r from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt.

The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

and consolidating concrete under water, essentially a tube of wood or sheet metal with a hooperlike top. It is usually handled by a crane.

An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches. To open the trenches (Mil.), to begin to dig or to form the lines of approach. Trench cavalier (Fort.), an elevation constructed (by a besieger) of gab…

A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

A troop of men; a host. [Obs.] Robert of Brunne.

A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.

ies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America. [Written also troopial.]

A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.