Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wooden or iron hoop on a mast.
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Leaning against the mast-hoop that encircled his waist, he lifted the long lance and poised it for the blow.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman
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