▪ I. † trape, v. Obs. or dial.
Also ? 5 trappe.
[Origin obscure. If quot. c 1400 belongs here, it may possibly be = MDu. and MLG. trappen to tread, trample, in Kilian ‘calcare, conculcare pedibus’, in EFris. (Doornkaat-Koolman), to set down the foot with force and noise, to tramp.
But this is doubtful, as there is a long gap between 1400 and 1706, and trape is not phonetically identical with trappe. Trape of 1706–49 is moreover preceded 1593–1700 by traipse v., of which it may have been a mutilated form.]
intr. = traipse v.
| [c 1400 Sowdone Bab. 1802 Fal what so euer by falle, To the Soudon wole they trappe.] 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Trape, to go idly up and down. 1721 in Bailey. 1749 Richardson Let. 4 Aug., in A. Dobson Fielding v. (1883) 139 The Lowest of all Fellows, yet in Love with a Young Creature who was traping after him. |
b. = traipse v. 1 b.
| 1875 Sussex Gloss. s.v., ‘Her gown trapes along the floor’. |
▪ II. trape
erroneous form of tripe2.