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scoop-up 
n. See quote.
See also: scoop-out
- 1929 With the exception of one or two good wells, the farmers rely for domestic water on ice cut from the rivers and "scoop-ups," as they call the sloughs which are made by damming some depression to hold rain-water or the flow from small streams.
- 1929 With the exception of one or two good wells, the farmers rely for domestic water on ice cut from the rivers and "scoop-ups," as they call the sloughs which are made by damming some depression to hold rain-water or the flow from small streams.