Meaning of groop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A trench or small ditch.
   Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
2. A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
   Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
3. A pen for cattle; a byre.
   Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“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, …”

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

“Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ...”

“… and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there;”

“Delete one point x and consider as new groops the point sets B\{x} where B is any block of D containing x.”

“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.”

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