gathering hoop

English

Noun

gathering hoop (plural gathering hoops)

A hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gathering hoop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)