▪ I. shrape, n. Obs. or dial.
Also 6 shraep, 6– shrap.
[A parallel form to scrape n.2 (see scr-).]
1. A bait of chaff or seed laid for birds; the place where such bait is laid. Hence gen. a snare.
| 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 10 §2 A Shrape made with Chaffe or other thing. 1592 Nashe P. Penilesse 8 Casting foorth silken shraps to catch Woodcocks. 1594 Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 55 After you haue procured the pigeons to haunt a place, by making of a shrap. 1618 S. Ward Jethro's Justice 48 The Diuell as well as the Briber laieth his hookes in this shrap. 1624 Bedell Lett. iii. 59 The most chaffie shrap that euer was set before the eyes of winged Fowle. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. 197 They [sparrows] being so easily induced to come to a Shrape or Place baited for them. 1817 J. Mayer Sportsman's Direct. (ed. 2) 160 To trap a fox in cover, make a shrape with some free moulds where the hares' paths meet. 1895 E. Angl. Gloss., Shrap or Scrap, a bait of chaff laid in the winter season to attract sparrows, &c., which are then netted with a contrivance called a ‘shrap net’. |
† 2. ? The enclosure in a cockpit, within which the cocks fight.
| 1575 Churchyard Chippes i. 99 Loe heer how soen, the strong becoms full weak And out of shraep, fly cocks and so crie creak. 1599 ― Fort. Farewel A 2 A crauen cock..Will run about, the shraep and daer not stand, When cocks of gaem, comes in to giue a bloe. |
▪ II. † shrape, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 scrapian, 3 schreape, 3–4 schrape, 4–6 shrape.
[OE. scrapian (see scrape v.).]
trans. and intr. To scratch, scrape (lit. and fig.).
| c 1000 in Techmer's Internat. Zeitschrift (1885) II. 124 Ᵹyf þu æᵹera beþurfe, þonne scrapa þu mid þinum fingre up on þinne wynstran þuman. a 1225 Ancr. R. 116 Heo schulden schreapien eueriche deie þe eorðe up of hore putte þer heo schulden rotien ine. Ibid. 82 (MS. C.), Þeose beoð all ischrapede ut of ancre riule þæt swich fulðe spit ut. 13.. [see shab n. 1]. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 215 Þenne was he a-schomed..and schraped his eren. c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 27 Take ȝe out litil foxis þat schrapen doun þe vines. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 184 Herly in the morowe to shrapyn in the vale, To fynde my dyner amonge the wormes smale. 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys 24 Youth brought vp in lewdnes and in syn Shall skant it shrape so clene out of his mynde. |