Word Meanings - CLOOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.

Related words: (words related to CLOOP)

• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• BOTTLE
  bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids. 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• BOTTLED
  1. Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle. 2. Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. Shak.
• CLOOP
  The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.
• WRENCH
  The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench. Carriage wrench, a wrench adapted for
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• BOTTLE GREEN
  A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• SOUNDABLE
  Capable of being sounded.
• BOTTLESCREW
  A corkscrew. Swift.
• BOTTLEHEAD
  A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale. Note: There are several species so named, as the pilot whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more species of Hyperoödon (H. bidens, etc.), found on the European coast.
• BOTTLE-NECK FRAME
  An inswept frame.
• SOUNDAGE
  Dues for soundings.
• BOTTLER
  One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.
• FORCIBLY
  In a forcible manner.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• KNAPBOTTLE
  The bladder campion .
• ALLIGATOR WRENCH
  A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.
• CUBDRAWN
  Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.