roup
Example Sentences
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Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is especially so in cases of roup or colds.
From Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude H. Miller
The day arrived when everything was to be sold by public roup.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
The roup was no a week after; an', oh, it was a grievous sicht to see hoo the crop an' the cattle went for just naething.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
Cramp, roup, and some other diseases, more frequently arise from stagnant wet in the soil than from any other cause.
