trape

See also: trapé and trápě

English

Etymology

Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹeɪp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪp

Noun

trape (plural trapes)

1. (obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
   • 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:

     Hard was his fate in this I own, / Nor will I for the trapes atone; / Indeed to guess I am not able, / What made her thus inexorable […]

Verb

trape (third-person singular simple present trapes, present participle traping, simple past and past participle traped)

1. (intransitive) To drag.

   No, that coat's too big; it'll trape along the ground if you wear it.

   • 1920, Raymond S. Spears, chapter 6, in Diamond Tolls:

     "I expect that's right," Frest admitted. "You going to drop right down—or be you hunting and traping along? You'n Delia?"

2. (intransitive) To run about idly or like a slattern.

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, treap

Old French

Alternative forms

• trappe

Etymology

From Medieval Latin trappa, trapa, borrowed from Frankish *trappā. More at English trap.

Noun

trape oblique singular, f (oblique plural trapes, nominative singular trape, nominative plural trapes)

1. trap (device design to ensnare or trap)
2. hiding place

Descendants

• Middle French: trappe, trape
  • French: trappe

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trape)
• trappe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French draper. Assimilated to trapo.

Noun

trape m (plural trapes)

1. (dated) intermediate fabric used to make drapery

Further reading

• “trape”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28