verb (used with object), frapped, frap·ping. Nautical.
to bind or wrap tightly with ropes or chains.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English frappen < Old French fraper to strike, beat, probably < Germanic (compare Old Norse hrapa to hurl, hurry)
1300–50; Middle English frappen < Old French fraper to strike, beat, probably < Germanic (compare Old Norse hrapa to hurl, hurry)
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| —vb , fraps, frapping, frapped | |
| (tr) nautical to lash down or together | |
| [C14: from Old French fraper to hit, probably of imitative origin] | |
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frap
14c., from O.Fr. fraper (Mod.Fr. frapper), cognate with It. frappare to strike, of unknown origin. Nautical sense is from 1540s.
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