Definition of "scrooping" [scrooping]

• Present participle of scroop. (verb)

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• "Only other person on Promenade a fisher-boy scrooping over the tiles in _sabots_."
• "Mrs. Goudie and Mary pushed back their chairs with a horrid scrooping noise, Mavis got up briskly, the baby awoke and began to cry."
• "Yet no one opened the great oak door; and Angela had a sudden sinking at the heart as the slow minutes passed and brought no sound of footsteps within, no scrooping of a bolt to betoken the opening of the door."