Except for Waldron he could have scooped it all in; but now four hundred was all he dared touch,--and perhaps not that.
A primitive oven is scooped in the ground, and its bottom being loosely covered with stones, a large fire is kindled within it.
'Catacomb' means 'scooped out.' Miles and miles of passages are there, some low and narrow, others wide and lofty; they cross and re-cross each other, like the streets of a town, and all are scooped out of the solid earth.
The blast would dislodge thirty to thirty-five thousand tons of rock, which was scooped up by great steam-shovels and loaded on to skips carried by a line of cars on a narrow-gauge railroad running to and from the crushing mill.