frape
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare frap.
Noun edit
frape (plural frapes)
- (obsolete) A crowd, a mob.[1]
- 1698, Edward Ward, Ecclesia and Factio:
- Then, by their own Corrupted Whimſies led,<be>Where the Frape meet, and common Ills are bred;
There hear the Church, from whence they came, Lampoon’d,
References edit
- ^ “frape”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
frape (countable and uncountable, plural frapes)
Verb edit
frape (third-person singular simple present frapes, present participle fraping, simple past and past participle fraped)
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Haitian Creole edit
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Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
frape
- To hit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
frape (plural frapes)
- crowd
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)