Index of English words, starting with "ho"

(1) - Hooky (a.) Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

(1) - Hoop (n.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
(2) - Hoop (n.) A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
(3) - Hoop (v. t.) To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
(4) - Hoop (v. t.) To drive or follow with a shout.
(5) - Hoop (v. i.) To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
(6) - Hoop (v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(7) - Hoop (v. t.) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(8) - Hoop (v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
(9) - Hoop (n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(10) - Hoop (n.) A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
(11) - Hoop (n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(12) - Hoop (n.) A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
(13) - Hoop (n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

(1) - Hooper (n.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.
(2) - Hooper (n.) One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.