/tɹeɪp/
OriginPerhaps 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”).
- obsoleteA messy or untidy woman.
“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 […]”
- intransitiveTo drag.
“No, that coat's too big; it'll trape along the ground if you wear it.”
“"I expect that's right," Frest admitted. "You going to drop right down—or be you hunting and traping along? You'n Delia?"”
- intransitiveTo run about idly or like a slattern.
Formstrapes(plural) · trapes(present, singular, third-person) · traping(participle, present) · traped(participle, past) · traped(past)