Obs. rare. [f. STOOP sb.1] trans. To mark out with ‘stoops’ or posts.
1663. W. Blundell, Crosby Rec. (1880), 222. This course, as it is now used upon the marshes … was stooped out by me … A.D. 1654.
1756. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1886), II. 154. Ordered,… that the horse causeway … be repaired at the expence of the Corporation so for as it extends within our liberties; and to be stoop’d out.
