groop
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.31 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The groop is one foot six inches wide, six and one-half inches deep at one end … to carry off the urine into a reservoir under the Cowhouse, …"
- "Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw."
- "Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ..."
- "… and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there;"
- "Delete one point x and consider as new groops the point sets B\{x} where B is any block of D containing x."
- "A groop divisible design on v points with groop size g and block size k is called a t-GD[k,g,;v] if every subset of t distinct points that contains no two points from the same groop is contained in exactly one block."
Etymology
From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōpu, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove.