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Roup, Rowp, Rope, n. Also: roupe; rolp; roop; roape.[Roup v.]

1. Some disease affecting the throat and causing hoarseness or huskiness; ? croup.Only Sc. till the 19th century. 1579 Despauter (1579).
Pituita, flewme from the heid discending or the roup a1605 Montg. Flyt. 317 (T).
The rottin roup [H. The rotte, the roupe], the auld rest

2. The action of selling or letting by auction. = Rouping vbl. n. 2.(a) 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X 280.
That it be a conditione in the roup of the weigh hous of Leith that [etc.] 1694 Glasgow B. Rec. in Glasgow Bakers 92.
The tyme of the roup of the saids ladles 1696 Foulis Acc. Bk. 199.
After the roup of Cockburne estate 1697 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 240.
Roupe(b) 1688 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 238.
That he could not be lyable for the said dutie contained in the rope(c) 1691 Melville Chart. 224.
The roop of the excise at Edenburgh 1698 A. Fletcher Two Discourses Concerning the Affairs of Scotland 36.
The letting of farms … by roop or auction(d) 1685 Kirkintilloch B. Ct. 135.
In ane frie offer of the peckes and pettie customes … their was severall offeris and roapes thairof

3. An auction. = Rouping vbl. n. 3.(1) 1682 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 60.
Finding that the sheip flecks at the publict rowp wes unsett 1682 Decis. Lords F. 7.
He had bought the ship upon a roup a1688 Wallace Orkney (ed. 2) 145.
The kings exchequer gives a lease to any that gives highest for it at a roup 1689 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIV 38.
Ane roupe of the said office … of postmaster generall within this kingdome 1692 Misc. B. Rec. 75. 1698 Maxwell Mem. II 347.
I belive the roup uill yet [? be] prorogat, though all I aime at is a good offer(2) 1696 Brechin Testaments VIII 108b (see Roup v. 4 passive (1) (g)).
Bill of rolp