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groop.

A trench or small ditch.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. A trench or small ditch.

    Northern-England · Scotland · UK · dialectal · obsolete

  2. 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

  3. A pen for cattle; a byre.

    Northern-England · Scotland · UK · dialectal · obsolete
Where this word comes from

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.

verb

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

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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.

noun

  1. Obsolete form of group.

    alt-of · obsolete
Where this word comes from

Alteration of group. More at group.

verb

  1. Obsolete form of group.

    alt-of · obsolete
Where this word comes from

Alteration of group. More at group.

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