To grow or increase, especially in agricultural contexts; to cultivate or cause to develop (archaic or dialect term).
From Middle English 'groan,' possibly influenced by 'grow.' This is an extremely rare or possibly obsolete form, with unclear etymology and very limited historical documentation.
This word is so archaic and obscure that even specialists debate whether it's a real historical term or a scribal error—it might be a dialectal variation that got recorded once and never used again, making it a ghost word.
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