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noun
A trench or small ditch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
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noun
A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
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noun
A pen for cattle; a byre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
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noun
Obsolete form of group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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verb
To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Obsolete form of group.
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Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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History
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.
Alteration of group. More at group.
