roup

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Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Birds occasionally recover, but are generally useless after having had roup.

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

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

After the roup, that is the sale, of his crop was over, Burns, in one of his letters, describes the scene that took place within and without his house.

From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell

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)