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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Roup  \Roup\,  v.  i.  &  t.  [Cf.  AS  hr?pan  to  cry  out  G.  rufen, 
  Goth.  hr?pian.  Cf  {Roop}.] 
  To  cry  or  shout;  hence  to  sell  by  auction.  [Scot.] 
  --Jamieson. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Roup  \Roup\,  n. 
  1.  An  outcry;  hence  a  sale  of  gods  by  auction.  [Scot.] 
  --Jamieson. 
 
  To  roup,  that  is  the  sale  of  his  crops,  was  over 
  --J.  C. 
  Shairp 
 
  2.  A  disease  in  poultry.  See  {Pip}. 




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