groop

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōpu, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove. ==== Alternative forms ==== grupe, groap, grube ==== Noun ==== groop (plural groops) (obsolete or UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or small ditch. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A pen for cattle; a byre. ==== Verb ==== groop (third-person singular simple present groops, present participle grooping, simple past and past participle grooped) (obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves. === Etymology 2 === Alteration of group. More at group. ==== Noun ==== groop (plural groops) Obsolete form of group. ==== Verb ==== groop (third-person singular simple present groops, present participle grooping, simple past and past participle grooped) Obsolete form of group. === References === Noah Webster (1828), “groop”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “groop”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.