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Webster 1828 Edition

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Lading out; making hollow; excavating; removing so as to leave a hollow.

scooping

scooping ‎(plural scoopings)

The process or result of something being scooped.
- 1853, Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
  I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings […]