A barrel, properly Hooped and headed, is almost indestructible, and much stronger than a box, altho the hoops are small.
"Economy of the Round Dairy Barn"
Wilber John Fraser
Hand-grenades were thrown and shells with lighted fuses rolled down on the heads of acquaintances of the night before, who replied from wooden coehorns Hooped with iron.
"The Crisis, Volume 7"
Winston Churchill
He seemed to take, in decoration for instance, the draped mantelpiece with its bows of ribbons, and pinned fans quite as seriously as Velasquez took the Hooped skirt in costume.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood