Definition of Roups

1. Noun. (plural of roup) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of roup) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Roups

1. roup [v] - See also: roup

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roups

roundy
rouned
rouning
rouns
rounsey
rounseys
roup
roup sale
rouped
roupet
roupier
roupiest
roupily
rouping
roupit
roups (current term)
roupy
rousant
rouse
rouseabout
rouseabouts
roused
rouseite
rouser
rousers
rouses
rousing
rousingly

Literary usage of Roups

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters from the Mountains: Being the Correspondence with Her Friends by Anne MacVicar Grant, John Peter Grant (1845)
"roups,* then, are a source of great amusement here, and a very expensive one to the roup-makers. At the dissolution of any family, by the death or removal ..."

2. Records of Old Aberdeen, MCLVII-[MCMIII] by Aberdeen (Scotland) (1899)
"... application from the Kirk Session of Old Machar requesting the Magistrates to direct their Officer to desist from calling roups &c. at the church door ..."

3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"Eight roups of cocoons, or eighty-four pounds, make twenty-four pounds of filk (eleven ounces and a half), which fells at 10 livres $f. the pound ; a roup ..."

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