looping

Loop"ing, n. Etym: [Cf. D. loopen to run. Cf. Loop a mass of iron, Leap.] (Metal.) Defn: The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination. Loop"ing, p. pr. & vb. n. Defn: of Loop. Looping snail (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.

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