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rouping, vbl. n. Sc. and north.|ˈraʊpɪŋ|
Also 6 rowp-, 7 roupeing, roping.
[f. roup v.]
1. The action of selling or letting by auction; also, an auction, a roup.
1593Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 30 The commoun guid and patrimonie of all Burrowis within this Realme,..efter the ȝeirlie rowping and setting thairof, as vse is. 1646R. Baillie Anabaptism (1647) 17 One..in a public roping did seem to use some couzenage in buying of a house. 1685Min. Bk. New Mills Cloth Manuf. (1905) 85 Appoynts [that] a roupeing be called upon Monday. 1786Fraser Tytler The Lounger No. 79 ⁋4 Was you ever at a sale,—a rouping you call it in this country? 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlii, After the rouping is ower, and the bills paid. 1888Barrie Auld Licht Idylls ii, Then took place the rouping of seats in the parish church.
b. Comb., as rouping-clerk, an auctioneer's clerk; † rouping-wife, -woman, a woman who holds auctions, or who buys at auctions for the purpose of selling again.
1782Sir J. Sinclair Observ. Scot. Dial. 127 Rouping⁓wife, a female auctioneer. 1785Gentl. Mag. LV. i. 201 The furniture of the house being previously sold to a rouping-woman, as she called it. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. iv, His neighbour the rouping-wife, or saleswoman. 1882J. Walker Jaunt to Auld Reekie 180 Would'st [thou] be degraded to a rouping clerk.
2. Crying, yelling.
c1865S. S. Jones Northumb. 115 Ilka bairnie spite o' its roupin' an' skirlin' had getten washed an' busked up. |