† grapeys Obs.
Also 4 graspeys, crospays, gra(y)pays, 5 grappays.
[a. OF. grapois, graspeis (also craspois):—med.L. crassum piscem (crassus fat, piscis fish). In the 16th c. the word became by etymologizing alteration grampus.]
The flesh of the grampus (prob. not distinguished from that of other cetaceans).
| [c 1112 ‘Laws of æthelred’ in Thorpe Laws I. 300 Homines de Rotomago qui veniebant cum vino vel craspice dabant rectitudinem sex sol. de magna navi, et vicesimum frustum de ipso craspice.] 1324–5 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) I. 15 In 2 petr. de Graypays rem. post comp. Ibid. I. 42 In grapays emp. 10d. 1390 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 19 Pro j barella parua de crospays ibidem empta. Ibid. 221 In vno cado de graspeys. c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 45 To serve on fysshe day with grappays. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks i. 59 Crabbe au Creueys, Graspeys [etc.]. 1489 Paston Lett. No. 906 III. 347 Bales, sturgion, porpeys, or grapeys. |