2. Verb. (third-person singular of roup) ¹
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Definition of Roups
1. roup [v] - See also: roup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roups
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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