▪ I. † ˈfrape1 Obs.
[? a. OF. frap of same meaning, f. fraper: see frap v.]
1. A crowd; a mob, the rabble.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 323 Þe þrid day com grete frape, & conged him away. a 1400 Pistill of Susan 289 Þei be fendes al þe frape. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 2091 This gentille..ffyghttez with alle the ffrappe a furlange of waye. c 1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 5085 Ther cam of hem a grete frape, Ful like Giauntez thei wer y-shape. 1706 E. 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.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 320 In alle þis mykelle frape wex a grete distance Of Boniface þe pape, & þe kyng of France. [1824–28 Craven Gloss., Fraps, noise, tumult.] |
▪ II. frape2, frap
[? f. frap v. (see quot. 1703).]
1. (See quot. 1867.) Also frape-boat.
| 1703 W. Dampier Voy. III. 20 From which girding them with Ropes, which our Seamen call Fraping, they have the Name of Frape-boats. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Frap, a boat for shipping salt, used at Mayo, one of the Cape de Verde Islands. |
2. (See quot. 1963.)
| 1901 Pall 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. 1963 Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 299 Frape, a rope with blocks for mooring a boat. |