Hoopstick
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A light framing member for a carriage or wagon hood or roof.
"The floor is of 2⅜-in. boards, and the roof of ⅞-in. boards covered with roofing canvas is laid on hardwood hoopsticks bolted to the steel carlines."
- 2 A stick used for rolling a child's play hoop.
Example
More examples"The floor is of 2⅜-in. boards, and the roof of ⅞-in. boards covered with roofing canvas is laid on hardwood hoopsticks bolted to the steel carlines."
Etymology
From hoop + stick.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.