† ˈgrooping, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. groop v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb groop; grooving, gouging. Chiefly in Comb. grooping-iron, a kind of chisel or gouge; grooping tool, a cooper's tool for making ‘groops’.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 217/1 Grow(p)ynge or gravynge yryn, runcina, scrophina. 1453 Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 162 Et de 6d. solutis Ricardo Carvour et servienti suo pro gropyng mensal dicti Purpityll. 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 807/29 Hec strofina, a gropyng-yryn. 1483 Cath. Angl. 167/2 A Grupynge yren, runcina. a 1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools 31 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 80 The groping-iren than spake he: Compas, who hath greuyd the? 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 108/1 Grooping is the making of the Rigget at the two ends of the Barrel to hold the head in. Ibid. 318/1 This may be termed the Coopers Grooping Tool. |