hoops

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But last week there came rumors that wickedness, like a greedy red fox, had invaded even the hencoops.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was none of the glamour which she had expected in the ramshackle buildings, cabins, and hencoops, with but little to differentiate one from the other.

From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The larboard-quarter boat was torn from the davits and blown across the poop, carrying away the binnacle and crushing the hencoops in its passage.

From The Wreck on the Andamans by Darvall, Joseph

The crew, then despairing of their safety, threw themselves in crowds into the sea, upon yards, planks, hencoops, tables, and barrels.

From Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre by Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de

In these courtyards stood quaint, large water-jars, which women filled from goat-skins carried on their shoulders from the wells, wobbling when full like live headless animals; and cradles, like hencoops, for their babies.

From Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore