scooping

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of scoop

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The process or result of something being scooped.

   “I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings […]”

2. (countable, uncountable)A singing technique in which the singer begins by singing a note slightly below the desired pitch, and then slides up to it.