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Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%.

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

Answer—The roup may be brought upon healthy fowls if they are shut up in narrow and unventilated quarters at night, and of days turned out in cold or wet weather.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

The day arrived when everything was to be sold by public roup.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George

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