Looping \Loop"ing\, n. [Cf. D. loopen to run. Cf. Loop a mass of iron, Leap.] (Metal.) The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Looping \Loop"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n. of Loop.
Looping snail (Zo["o]l.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.
Loop \Loop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Looped; p. pr. & vb. n. Looping.] To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.