scooping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of scoop

plural scoopings

1. countableuncountableThe 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 […]

   1853, Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal

2. countableuncountableentertainmentA singing technique in which the singer begins by singing a note slightly below the desired pitch, and then slides up to it.