roup

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Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The counting of these bottles was a labor, but it is not even by them that the roup is remembered.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

They were both bidding at the roup and some business thegither.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca

Friday.—I go with Mr. Hood to see a roup of an unfortunate farmer’s stock—rigid economy, and decent industry, do you preserve me from being the principal dramatis persona in such a scene of horror.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert