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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
roup . - adjective Affected with
roup - adjective
roupy
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Examples
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"I think I mind you threatened it before myself, and Doom is to be rouped at last to pleasure a wanton woman."
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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He rouped the kirk-seats like potato-drills, beginning by asking for a bid.
Auld Licht Idylls 1898
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He rouped the kirk-seats like potato-drills, beginning by asking for a bid.
Auld Licht Idyls 1898
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A month afterwards Margaret sold her share in the smack, which was all Adam left her, and the furniture of the house was rouped.
The Little Minister 1898
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-- The parks were rouped for £100 a year more than they brought last year.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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Osbaldistone is? or Macbeth, and all his kernes and galla-glasses, and your awn to boot, Rob, procure him five thousand pounds to answer the bills which fall due ten days hence, were they a’ rouped at the
Rob Roy 2005
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I'll see that Petullo has them rouped from the door. "
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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"I've kept auld Doom in times o 'rowth and splendour, and noo I'm spared to see't rouped, the laird a dyvour and a nameless wanderer ower the face o' the earth.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Jimsy kept his books there was, I have no doubt -- for his effects were rouped before I knew him except by name -- a well-read copy of "Paradise
A Window in Thrums 1898
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