hooped, a.
(huːpt)
[f. hoop n.1 + -ed2.]
1. a. Having a hoop or hoops; made with a hoop. (See also hoop n.1 8 d.)
| 1552 Huloet, Houped, funetus. 1630 in Descr. Thames (1758) 66 No Fisherman..shall..use or exercise any..hooped Net. 1716 Lond. Gaz. No. 5464/4 One hoop'd Diamond Ring, with 19 Brilliants. 1794 W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 111 There are three descriptions of wheels, viz. the straked, the hooped, and the patent rim. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxvi. 648 Hooped wooden goblets. |
b. hooped petticoat = hoop-petticoat 1.
| 1712 Spect. No. 292 ¶11, I wear the hooped Petticoat. 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet I. 203 Skirts extended like a woman's hooped petticoat. |
2. Wearing a hoop (sense 6).
| 1821–30 Ld. Cockburn Mem. i. 63 They had both shone as hooped beauties in the minuets. 1864 Sala in Daily Tel. 10 June, Are the stalls of the opera big enough to hold their hooped occupants? |
3. Rounded like a hoop.
| 1852 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. III. 137 The breeder will do well to seek in his animal a proper form, viz...good, hooped ribs. 1934 M. F. McTaggart Handbk. Horse Owners ii. 40 The ribs should be well hooped and deep. |
4. Comb. hooped-back a., said of a chair with a hooped back. (Cf. hoop-back.)
| 1906 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. III. ii. 60 In the hooped-back chair..the splat begins to show signs of subdivision. 1941 Burlington Mag. June 187/1 Hooped-back chairs with compass seats were produced in the provinces until after Chippendale's Director made its appearance. 1960 H. Hayward Antique Coll. 145/1 Hooped-back chair. |