Stoop

1. n. A post fixed in the earth.
2. n. Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
3. n. A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
4. v. i. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
5. v. i. To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
6. v. i. To sink when on the wing; to alight.
7. v. t. To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
8. v. t. To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
9. v. t. To cause to submit; to prostrate.
10. v. t. To degrade.
11. 1n. 1 A post fixed in the earth.
12. 1n. 1 Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.