scooping
noun
- act of dipping (as with ladle or hand)
Wiktionary
noun
- 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 […]”
- A singing technique in which the singer begins by singing a note slightly below the desired pitch, and then slides up to it.
verb
- present participle and gerund of scoop