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)

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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

"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

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

This route has got the N. M. & Q. frapped to suds.

From Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs

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 Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

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 Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

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

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

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 W. B. Woodgate

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 James A. (James Alfred) Moss

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

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 Sir Edward Belcher

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