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Definition of Rooped
1. roop [v] - See also: roop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rooped
Literary usage of Rooped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"... Point with a oad of passengers, when Cap'n Crumble »l»d his hand to them from
the wharf. The rooped up together. g's up!" said the watchman, with Ji" Hi ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen (1899)
"What a shout ,ll Pocock's boys set up, as I went out of the justice-room !
We ;rooped joyfully down the stairs, and there were fresh shouts and ..."
3. On Early English Pronunciation: With Special Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, William Salesbury, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Francis James Child, Alexander Barclay, Johan Winkler (1874)
"... he rooped [=called] one of his father men by him and asked him what that to
mean had. 27 and that-one said against him : thy brother is come and your ..."
4. A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language by George Lillie Craik (1867)
"So she drooped and d'rooped before him, Were once more that landscape-painter
Fading slowly from his side: Three fair children first she bore him, ..."
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