groop - What does it mean?

Noun

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A trench or small ditch.

A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.

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|year=1816 |year_published=2007 |edition=Digitized |editor= |author=James Cleland |title=Annals of Glasgow |chapter= citation |genre= |publisher= |isbn= |page=373 |passage=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, … }}

*2008 , Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones :

Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop , sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.

A pen for cattle; a byre.

Noun

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|year=1828 |year_published=2007 |edition=Digitized |editor= |author=William Taylor |title=Historic Survey of German Poetry |chapter= citation |genre=Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter |publisher= |isbn= |page=179 |passage=Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ... }}

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|year=1834 |year_published= |edition= |editor= |author=Charles Augustus Davis |title=Letters of J. Downing, Major |chapter= citation |genre= |publisher=Harper & Brothers |isbn= |page=158 |passage=… and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there; }}

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|year=1985 |year_published=2010 |edition=Digitized |editor= |author=Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz |title=Design Theory |chapter= citation |genre=Mathematics |publisher=Bibliographisches Institut |isbn=9783411016754 |page=560 |passage=Delete one point x'' and consider as new groops the point sets ''B\{x}'' where ''B'' is any block of D containing ''x . }}

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|year=2004 |year_published= |edition= |editor= |author=Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization |title=Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73 |chapter= citation |genre=Mathematics |publisher=University of Waterloo |isbn= |page=90 |passage=A groop''' divisible design'' on ''v'' points with '''groop''' size ''g'' and block size ''k'' is called a ''t-GD[k,g,;v]'' if every subset of ''t'' distinct points that contains no two points from the same ' groop is contained in exactly one block. }}