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Groop
Definitions
- 1 A trench or small ditch. Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
- 2 Obsolete form of group. alt-of, obsolete
"Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ..."
- 3 A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine. Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
"The groop is one foot six inches wide, six and one-half inches deep at one end … to carry off the urine into a reservoir under the Cowhouse, …"
- 4 A pen for cattle; a byre. Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
- 1 To make a channel or groove; to form grooves. obsolete
- 2 Obsolete form of group. alt-of, obsolete
"Grooped around the fires on which they were preparing their provisions, …"
Etymology
From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōpu, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove.
From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōpu, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove.
Alteration of group. More at group.
Alteration of group. More at group.
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