Definitions

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of roup.
  • adjective Affected with roup
  • adjective roupy

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Examples

  • "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

  • He rouped the kirk-seats like potato-drills, beginning by asking for a bid.

    Auld Licht Idylls 1898

  • He rouped the kirk-seats like potato-drills, beginning by asking for a bid.

    Auld Licht Idyls 1898

  • 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

  • -- 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

  • 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

  • I'll see that Petullo has them rouped from the door. "

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • "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

  • 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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