Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Looping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Looping \Loop"ing\, n. [Cf. D. loopen to run. Cf. {Loop} a mass
of iron, {Leap}.] (Metal.)
The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass,
when the ore is only heated for calcination.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Looping \Loop"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n.
of {Loop}.
{Looping snail} (Zo["o]l.), any species of land snail of the
genus {Truncatella}; -- so called because it creeps like
the measuring worms.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loop \Loop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Looped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Looping}.]
To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; --
often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.
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