shrap
English
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edit- Rhymes: -æp
Noun
editshrap (plural shraps)
- (obsolete) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
- c. 1642, William Bedell, letter
- You fell, like another dove, by the most chaffy shrap that ever was set before the eyes of winged fowl.
- c. 1642, William Bedell, letter
References
edit- “shrap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.