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  • verb Present participle of croup.

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Examples

  • It was in vain that he told them he heard a raven speaking, and another raven answering him: the people laughed him to scorn, and kicked him out of their assemblies, as a one who spoke evil of dignities; and they called him a warlock, an 'a daft body, to think to mak language out o' the crouping o 'craws.

    The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802

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