English Explanatory Dictionary

groop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A trench or small ditch.
  2. A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
  3. A pen for cattle; a byre.
verb
  1. To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.
noun
  1. Obsolete form of group.
verb
  1. Obsolete form of group.

Word forms

groop groops grupe groap grube grooping grooped

Etymology

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.

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