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English
Etymology
From in- + hoop.
Verb
inhoop (third-person singular simple present inhoops, present participle inhooping, simple past and past participle inhooped)
- (transitive, obsolete) To confine or enclose as with a hoop or hoops; coop up.
c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):His cocks do win the battle still of mine, When it is all to nought; and his quails ever Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds.
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