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Hoop part
Answer for the clue "Hoop part ", 3 letters:
rim
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Word definitions for rim in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English rima "edge, border, verge, coast," as in særima "seashore," literally "rim of the sea," and dægrima "dawn," literally "rim of the day." Related to Old Norse rime , rimi "a raised strip of land, ridge," Old Frisian rim "edge," but with no other ...
Usage examples of rim.
Black and blue halos rimmed her eyes, and her cheeks were abraided, with dried blood at one corner of her mouth.
He followed ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL167 with an antistaphylococcal injection and finally handed over a sauce bottle filled to the rim with acriflavine solution.
Late one night, Aiken and a gang of young confederates stole quantities of cement and conduit and modified the rocks at the rim of the falls.
Her entourage had retreated to the rim, to join Alfin, the treemouth custodian.
Even in those years, only the most foolhardy explorers poked themselves over the altiplano rim of the bowl.
A multitude of anfractuous cracks spread out from the rim of the segment as though tendrils of frost were gripping the tube.
The populations of the attacked Rim worlds had been driven insane by the presence of the Terrors appalling heralds, but Corcoran had been right at the edge of the solar system, racing towards hyperspace and safety.
Light bulbs concealed beneath the brick rim illuminated the arching water, which swirled up from the crystal pool like an aqueous ballerina.
There were, so far as the Archdeacon could see, no markings, no ornamentation, except for a single line, about half an inch below the rim.
Mad Binny said, running a finger slowly around the rim of the cup so it began to sing a note.
While MiLady was doing this, Bitsy the fairy was holding onto the candlestick and watching over the rim of the casket.
His eyes bleared and troubled him as tears of exhausted rage collected in the rims and gave a misty view.
Has the strut, his bling bling, has his girls iced up, big spinning rims on his car, a heavy bass in his sound box.
A number of Plebos were clustered around its base and Favril and Bolar were among them, but it was up the lacy spire that my eyes lifted--to where its apex, level with the rim of the bowl, was surmounted by a wide platform that held a knot of Plebos and Daster and several machines whose nature I could not make out.
They were running fast toward the head of this cove, and I had hard work to hold Black Bolly to a safe gait along that tricky rim.