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Grape
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- 1 Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
- 2 Of a dark purplish red colour.
- 1 A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis. countable
"Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more."
- 2 Filter-avoidance spelling of rape. Internet, countable, euphemistic, uncountable
- 3 a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot wordnet
- 4 A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine. countable, uncountable
"wild grape covering the back slope"
- 5 any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters wordnet
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- 6 Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies. countable
"sea grape; tail grape"
- 7 any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries wordnet
- 8 A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. countable, uncountable
"For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape."
- 9 Clipping of grapeshot. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable
"men mowed down by grape"
- 10 A mangy tumour on a horse's leg. countable, uncountable
- 11 A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft. US, countable, slang, uncountable
"I was horrified to see three grapes standing by the aircraft with the hose still connected."
- 12 A person's head. countable, slang, uncountable
- 1 To pick grapes.
"I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying."
- 2 Filter-avoidance spelling of rape. Internet, euphemistic
- 3 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."
- 4 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 mind."
- 5 To grope. Northern-UK
"Lang, lang I sought and graped for my pack, Till night and hunger forced me to come back."
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- 6 To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom). Hong-Kong
Etymology
From 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.
From 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.
From 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.
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