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groops

groops is the plural of groop.

Meaning of groop

Noun

groop (plural groops)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete) A trench or small ditch.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete) A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
    • 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 England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete) A pen for cattle; a byre.

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Questions about groops

What is groops the plural of?
Groops is the plural of groop.

Words near groops in the dictionary

  1. groop
  2. grooped
  3. grooper
  4. groopers
  5. grooping
  6. groops
  7. Groot
  8. Grootfontein
  9. Groots
  10. grootslang
  11. grootslangs

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