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
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- 5
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Definition of trape
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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
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(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
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(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?"”
- (intransitive)To run about idly or like a slattern.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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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