Verb (used without object) : The gate scrooped as he swung it shut. From Dictionary.com.
Only the "scroop" of the runners and jingle of the sleigh-bells seemed to be hammered into the brain, for all eternity. From Wordnik.com. [From Paris to New York by Land] Reference
Jerry caught at one of the hall chairs, and made it scroop on the stone floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne] Reference
I took my dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled it into the dog-kennel, vowing I hated a good book. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
A metallic rattle and scroop told that the official in the box on the other side of the Castle bluff had opened the points. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
And as she went up-stairs Julia listened to hear their chairs scroop on the kamptulikon floor as they drew them to the table; she was surprised not to hear the sound, but she imagined the game must have been put off a little so that her father could talk over his troubles. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Comrade] Reference
From the young person employed as housemaid, I gets what I take the liberty to call my ground-plan of the baronet's habits; beginning with his late breakfast, consisting chiefly of gunpowder tea and cayenne pepper, and ending with the scroop of his latch-key, to be heard any time from two in the morning to day-break. From Wordnik.com. [Run to Earth A Novel] Reference
Tizzy placed her arms round her brother's neck and clung tightly while he played the restive steed, and raised Cook's ire to red-hot point by purposely kicking one of the Windsor chairs, making it scroop on the beautifully-white floor of the front kitchen, and making the queen of the domain rush out at him, looking red-eyed and ferocious, for the onion-juice had affected her. From Wordnik.com. [Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others] Reference
It would scroop, as they say. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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