▪ I. ˈgraping, vbl. n.
[Cf. blackberrying.]
The gathering of grapes.
| 1854 Thoreau Walden, House-Warming (1884) 256 In October I went a-graping to the river meadows. |
▪ II. † ˈgraping, ppl. a. nonce-wd.
Bearing grapes.
| 1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. xlv, Over the hedge depends the graping Elme. |