groop

plural groops · alternative grupe · alternative groap · alternative grube

1. Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectalobsoleteA trench or small ditch.
2. Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectalobsoleteA trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.

   Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.

   2008, Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones

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   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, …

   1816, James Cleland, Annals of Glasgow, Digitized edition, published 2007, page 373

3. Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectalobsoleteA pen for cattle; a byre.

present singular third person groops · participle present grooping · participle past grooped · past grooped · alternative grupe · alternative groap · alternative grube

1. obsoleteTo make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

plural groops

1. obsoleteObsolete form of group.

   Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ...

   1828, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry, Digitized edition (Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter), published 2007, page 179

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   … and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there;

   1834, Charles Augustus Davis, Letters of J. Downing, Major, Harper & Brothers, page 158

   Delete one point x and consider as new groops the point sets B\{x} where B is any block of D containing x.

   1985, Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz, Design Theory, Digitized edition (Mathematics), Bibliographisches Institut, published 2010, →ISBN, page 560

   A groop divisible design on v points with groop size g and block size k is called a t-GD[k,g,;v] if every subset of t distinct points that contains no two points from the same groop is contained in exactly one block.

   2004, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73 (Mathematics), University of Waterloo, page 90

present singular third person groops · participle present grooping · participle past grooped · past grooped

1. obsoleteObsolete form of group.

   Grooped around the fires on which they were preparing their provisions, …

   1829, The Battle of Navarino: Or the Renegade, Digitized edition, published 2010, page 40