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▪ I. † ˈfrape1 Obs.
[? a. OF. frap of same meaning, f. fraper: see frap v.]
1. A crowd; a mob, the rabble.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 323 Þe þrid day com grete frape, & conged him away. a1400Pistill of Susan 289 Þei be fendes al þe frape. a1400Morte Arth. 2091 This gentille..ffyghttez with alle the ffrappe a furlange of waye. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 5085 Ther cam of hem a grete frape, Ful like Giauntez thei wer y-shape. 1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. I. i. 11 Let loose the Frape to shew their Folly. 1710― Brit. Hud. i. 11 This wild Frape, to Mischief free.
2. ? Tumult, disturbance.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 320 In alle þis mykelle frape wex a grete distance Of Boniface þe pape, & þe kyng of France. [1824–28Craven Gloss., Fraps, noise, tumult.]
▪ II. frape2, frap
[? f. frap v. (see quot. 1703).]
1. (See quot. 1867.) Also frape-boat.
1703W. Dampier Voy. III. 20 From which girding them with Ropes, which our Seamen call Fraping, they have the Name of Frape-boats. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Frap, a boat for shipping salt, used at Mayo, one of the Cape de Verde Islands.
2. (See quot. 1963.)
1901Pall Mall Mag. Oct. 183 The boy crept down through the moonlit garden to the dinghy which Billy had left on its frape under the cliff. 1905‘Q’ Shining Ferry iii. xviii. 186 Through this ring... Mr. Hosken had run a frape, on which he kept his blue boat. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 299 Frape, a rope with blocks for mooring a boat. |