Scoop.
1.
a. A wooden shovel.
b. A thin metallic shovel with hollowing, capacious sides for handling grain.
A grain-shovel.
c. A familiar utensil (
d.
Fig. 4676), usually of tinplate, for handling sugar, flour, etc.
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2. A tool (
a b) for scooping out potato-eyes from the tubers.
The object is to save a part of the root for food.
There are several varieties of it. A bent blade or a sharp-edged spoon will do for the work.
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Potato-scoop. |
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Scoops. |
3. A bailing device used where the lift is moderate.
Scoops are used for dipping liquors, for baling boats, for wetting sails in racing.
c is a bailing scoop for use in ditching.
Fairbairn's bailscoop is worked by the single-acting
Cornish engine.
It is pivoted to a structure
a on the bank, and adjustably connected by a rod
b to the beam of the engine, so that the amount of its dip may be regulated.
The other end of the engine working-beam is weighted to assist in raising the scoop when filled.
Valves
c in the bottom open when the scoop dips in the water and fall when it begins to rise.
It is employed for raising water in draining, etc.
Fig. 4678 is a box shovel suspended from a tripod or pole, and used to dip water over a low bank.
Formerly much used in
Holland.
Now sometimes used in bailing accumulated water from excavations for cellars.
4. (
Hydraulic Engineering.) The bucket of a dredging-machine.
That shown (
Fig. 4679) is in two parts, firmly attached to their respective handles, which are pivoted.
They are opened to enter the mud by hauling in the bifurcated rope
H G G, and closed to retain and lift it by means of a rope attached to the rod
R.
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Dredging-scoop. |
5. (
Surgical.) A spoonshaped instrument for extracting foreign bodies, as a bullet from a wound, calculi from the bladder, objects from the meatus auditorius externus, nasal fossae, etc.
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Scoop-wheel. |
