verb

• (intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
  "the holy eagle Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is More sweet then our blest Fields"
• (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
  "to stoop a cask of liquor"
• (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
  "Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stoopt by death; and many left alive."

noun

• (architecture, chiefly New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, also Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
  "Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door."
• (architecture, US) The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
  "A short flight of iron steps leads up to it and a storm door is built over the stoop, forming a little vestibule, and serving to keep out the gusts."

noun

• (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.