/ɡɹeɪp/
OriginFrom Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.
- countableA small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
“Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.”
- countable, uncountableA woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
“wild grape covering the back slope”
- countableAny of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.
- countable, uncountableA dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
“For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountableClipping of grapeshot.
“men mowed down by grape”
“The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.”
- countable, uncountableA mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
- US, countable, slang, uncountableA purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
“I was horrified to see three grapes standing by the aircraft with the hose still connected.”
- countable, slang, uncountableA person's head.
- Internet, countable, euphemistic, uncountableFilter-avoidance spelling of rape.
- Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
- Of a dark purplish red colour.
- To pick grapes.
“I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying.”
- Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
“Some are called ticked; some have the milk fever; some have worm-'ith-tail ; some are graped ; others are broken-up old cows.”
“The lungs were in a bad condition, hard in places, and lumpy and badly graped.”
“Do I understand that the carcases of the graped cows, to which you refer, were used for food ?”
- To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
“Over the huge abraded rind, Crow-countries graped with dung, we go, Past gullies that no longer flow And wells that nobody can find, Lashed by the screaming of the crow, Stabbed by the needles of the ”
“Some small graped pisolitic textures are primary but not important.”
“An additional concern is the problem of graping, which becomes more visible when type-4 solder powder is required for fine-pitch μ-BGA attachment.”
- Northern-UKTo grope.
“Lang, lang I sought and graped for my pack, Till night and hunger forced me to come back.”
“Aw graped my way out i' the dark, An' down the stairs aw scrafflel'd”
“I dinna ken,” said Steenie ; “ the book had fa'en out 0' his pocket, I fancy, for I fand it amang my feet when I was graping about to set him on his legs again, and I just pat it in my pouch to keep i”
- Hong-KongTo envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).
- Internet, euphemisticFilter-avoidance spelling of rape.
Formsgrapes(plural) · more grape(comparative) · most grape(superlative) · grapes(present, singular, third-person) · graping(participle, present) · graped(participle, past) · graped(past)