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"A pen for cattle; a byre."
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"To make a channel or groove; to form grooves."
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"(obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves."
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"ref": "1828, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry, Digitized edition (Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter), published 2007, page 179",
"text": "Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ...",
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"ref": "1834, Charles Augustus Davis, Letters of J. Downing, Major, Harper & Brothers, page 158",
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"ref": "1985, Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz, Design Theory, Digitized edition (Mathematics), Bibliographisches Institut, published 2010, page 560",
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"ref": "2004, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73 (Mathematics), University of Waterloo, page 90",
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