frap
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of frap
1300–50; Middle English frappen < Old French fraper to strike, beat, probably < Germanic (compare Old Norse hrapa to hurl, hurry)
Example Sentences
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Bake, cool, wrap in plastic frap, and freeze in a freezer bag, and make the cream cheese frosting the day before or day of.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2021
Since the announcement of the specialty beverage’s launch, baristas, and some sympathetic customers, have been tweeting out against anyone ordering the Tie-Dye frap.
From Fox News ● Jul. 10, 2019
"Then, I hear again, 'Banana nut bread for Chang.' I'm like, OK, probably the same order. Then, followed by that was the chocolate frap," Festejo continued.
From Fox News ● Dec. 2, 2018
I thoroughly washed the caramel frap residue and filled it to the brim with tap water.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2012
“Um, a caramel frap, a fat-free soy latte, and...”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
Pouted one newspaper: "They've even frapped our innocent flippers."
From Time Magazine Archive
Already the masts and shrouds had been "frapped", or protected, by means of wire cables wrapped round the spars and interlaced between the standing-rigging.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
This route has got the N. M. & Q. frapped to suds.
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
Once we frapped a ship, and she laboured woundily.
From Verses 1889-1896 by Kipling, Rudyard
Then, taking the jib, we "frapped" it round the opening where the bows had been, lashing it securely in that position.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.
These rope-girdles are not to be confused with the process of undergirding or frapping, such as is narrated of the vessel in which St. Paul was being carried to Italy.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
Consists of a grommet made of rope double the size of the gun-tackle falls, with two cringles worked into it for the frapping lashing, which will be of stuff half the size of the tackle-falls.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
The old frontiersman literally avalanched off his broncho and made a dash at the tent flap, frapping it loudly with the flat of his hand.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
The frapping increases tension, and consequently adds to the security acquired by the purchase; hence the cat-harpings were no other than frappings to the shrouds.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Presently the Charley came up and, finding a Nazarene kneeling on a Moslem and frapping him, asked, "What harm hath this one done?"; and the Broker answered, "The fellow meant to snatch off my turband."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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