1513 Dundee Lockit Bk. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue 1 (at cited word) The commune salmound fischeingis of this burgh..sett the tyme of the last rolping thairof for foure hundreth merkis ȝeirlie.

1559 in A. Maxwell Old Dundee (1891) 171 The haill communitie being warnit be the bell to the rouping of twelve kapes..the bode of John Fleshour wes esteemit to be maist.

1593 Sc. 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.

1646 R. Baillie Anabaptism 17 One..in a public roping did seem to use some couzenage in buying of a house.

1685 Min. Bk. New Mills Cloth Manuf. (1905) 85 Appoynts [that] a roupeing be called upon Monday.

1729 in H. Marwick Merchant Lairds (1936) I. 147 I shall indeavour when the roupings come on at Martimes to purchass 1 dozen Russia Letherd chairs for you.

1786 F. Tytler Lounger No. 79. ⁋4 Was you ever at a sale,—a rouping you call it in this country?

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 102 After the rouping is ower, and the bills paid.

1867 D. D. Black Hist. Brechin (ed. 2) iii. 45 The Muckle Mill and weigh-house are exposed for let in a way continued down to a much later period, the rouping being from day to day, and the lease for one year only.

1888 J. M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls ii Then took place the rouping of seats in the parish church.

1906 ‘H. Foulis’ Vital Spark xv. 109 A crowd of prospective purchasers interested in a collection of farm utensils and household sundries, the disposal of which preceded the rouping of the beasts.

1938 St. Andrew's Citizen 20 Aug. 8 The rouping of the Lammas Market stances.

2006 P. Aitchison Black Friday iv. 74 Williamson never threatened a rouping and only ever asked for the established £20 Scots teind from local boats.

1671 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 107 The Councell appoynts [a committee] to peruse the rouping books and the thesaurers accompts and try what the charge of the Common Good will extend to yeirly.

1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 180 Would'st [thou] be degraded to a rouping clerk.

1559–60 in G. S. Pryde Ayr Burgh Accts. (1937) 32 The baillies gat ane pistolett of ropene silver.

1609–10 in G. S. Pryde Ayr Burgh Accts. (1937) 245 Of roping silvir for the buithis of the Tolbuyth.

1782 J. Sinclair Observ. Sc. Dial. 127 Rouping wife, a female auctioneer.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 99 His neighbour the rouping-wife, or saleswoman.

1931 J. Lorimer Red Sergeant v The greedy crones whom we call rouping-wives.

1977 J. S. Gibson Deacon Brodie i. 16 In another [house] a rouping wife keeps a salesroom for old furniture.

1760 Memorial for N. Brown & J. Hardie 3 A Rouping Woman was brought from Edinburgh to compleat the Victory.

1785 Gentleman's Mag. 55 i. 201 The furniture of the house being previously sold to a rouping-woman, as she called it.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The ropeen of the rauynis gart the crans crope.

c1865 S. S. Jones Northumberland 115 Ilka bairnie spite o' its roupin' an' skirlin' had getten washed an' busked up.

1911 R. Taylor Polit. Prophecy Eng. iii. 74 The Raven with his rouping frightened many from Caithness to Cornwall.

1987 Guardian (Nexis) 14 May He'd behaved—if I heard this right through the baying and rouping—like a bounder and a cad.

1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 1083 in Wks. (1931) I The rowpand Reuin said: sweit syster, lat se Ȝour holy intent.

1928 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Roup v.² [Aberdeenshire] Roupin, hoarse, bronchial.

1993 G. Gibson Gentleman Death vi. 79 Uttering various croaks in obviously meaningful combinations, flying singly or in pairs, they'd beat purposefully off to the south and their rouping cries were a foreign language.