trape

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/tɹeɪ̯p/
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/tɹeɪ̯p/ · /tɹæɪ̯p/ · /tɹep/ · /ʈɾeːp/

Definition of trape

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)A 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[…]”
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noun

  1. (obsolete)A 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[…]”

verb

  1. (intransitive)To 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?"”
  2. (intransitive)To run about idly or like a slattern.

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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”).

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