The strong iron bindings of the anchor-stock to the shank, though square, are called hoops.
Strong iron hoops, binding the stock to the end of the shank and over the nuts of the anchor. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast. ...
A combustible invented by the knights of Malta to throw among their besiegers, and afterwards used i...
The iron hoops on made or built masts. ...
Synonymous with clasp-hoops for masts or spars; they are open iron hoops, so made that their ends, b...