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Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leeby would have considered it almost wicked to talk of anything except Jamie now, but Hendry cried out comments on the tatties, yesterday's roup, the fall in jute, to everybody he encountered.

From A Window in Thrums by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

The temperature is milder in the winter than in the East, but the Petaluma winter is one of continual rain which develops roup to a greater extent than we have it in the East.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)

When he got the estate into trouble it was my care and skill saved it from roup and rent rack.

From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Is it an auctioneer's, for a roup o' furniture or a sale o' stock?'

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay