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Webster 1913 Edition

Poop

Poop

,
Noun.
(Arch.)
See 2d
Poppy
.

Poop

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pooped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pooping
.]
[Cf. D.
poepen
. See
Pop
.]
To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.

Poop

,
Noun.
[F.
poupe
; cf. Sp. & Pg.
popa
, It.
poppa
; all fr. L.
puppis
.]
(Naut.)
A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel’s hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See
Poop deck
, under
Deck
. See also
Roundhouse
.
With wind in
poop
, the vessel plows the sea.
Dryden.
The
poop
was beaten gold.
Shakespeare

Poop

,
Verb.
T.
(Naut.)
(a)
To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.
“A sea which he thought was going to poop her.”
Lord Dufferin.
(b)
To strike in the stern, as by collision.

Webster 1828 Edition

Poop

POOP

,
Noun.
[L. puppis; probably a projection.]
The highest and aftmost part of a ship's desk.

POOP

,
Verb.
T.
To strike upon the stern, as a heavy sea.
1.
To strike the stern, as one vessel that runs her stem against another's stern.

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