groop

Meanings

Noun

• A trench or small ditch.
• A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
• A pen for cattle; a byre.

Verb

• To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

Origin

• From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ-. Cognate with Scots gruip, North Frisian groop, Dutch groep, Swedish grop, Old English grēp, grēpe. More at grip, groove.
• Alteration of group. More at group.