6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with
a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
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.
Scoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping.] [OE.
scopen. See Scoop, n.] 1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
He scooped the water from the crystal flood.
Dryden.