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groop

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make a channel or groove; form grooves.
  • noun A trench; a drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
  • noun A pen for cattle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of group.
  • verb Alternative form of group.
  • noun Northern England, Scotland A trench or small ditch.
  • noun Northern England, Scotland A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
  • noun Northern England, Scotland A pen for cattle; a byre.
  • verb obsolete To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Alteration of group. More at group.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp ("ditch"), 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.

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