frap

American  

[frap] / fræp /

verb (used with object)

Nautical.

frapped, frapping

1. to bind or wrap tightly with ropes or chains.

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frap British  

/ fræp /

verb

1. (tr) nautical to lash down or together

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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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frap frapped frapping

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

The facility has installed a UV sanitizer unit in the lobby, cleverly placed near the coffee bar so that staff and visitors can use it while they wait for a mocha frap or double espresso.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 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 took a sip of my frap and nodded.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

Pouted one newspaper: "They've even frapped our innocent flippers."

From Time Magazine Archive

The ship was besides frapped from the fore-mast to the main-mast.

From Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. by Anonymous

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)

All superfluous gear aloft was sent below; shrouds were frapped to resist shell-fire, and the fore-top-mast was housed.

From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Once we frapped a ship, and she laboured woundily.

From Verses 1889-1896 by Kipling, Rudyard

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.

Take a couple of frapping turns between each pair of spars in succession and finish with a clove hitch on the central spar above the lashing.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)

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

Accordingly they jostled one another and each took to frapping his fellow, making the while loud outcries.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

A couple of frapping turns are then taken between the spars and the lashing is finished off with a clove hitch above the turns on one of the spars.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)