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ˈhoop-stick
1. A thin pliable stick or sapling such as is used for making cask-hoops.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 11 Your Punch fixed at the end of a Hoop-stick, or some such Wood. 1704tr. I. Lefevre's Mem. 75 How many blows I have received with Cudgels and Hoopsticks.
2. One of the arched rails forming the framework of a carriage-head.
1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 16 The compass rails, called hoopsticks, five or six in number, are shaped to the intended form of the roof. Ibid. 31 The flats and hoopsticks, or the timber-work for a square head to support the leather.
3. A stick for driving a toy hoop.
1852W. Jerdan Autobiog. III. 174 A woman, bowling a hoop round the walks, with a hoop-stick in one hand and a book in the other. |