Stoop
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A small porch, unroofed platform, or raised veranda leading to a main entrance. A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section below) position of the body A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To bend one's self, or one's head, forward and downward. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
Example sentence: There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Stoup
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a bucketa mug or drinking vessela receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church