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Trape

//tɹeɪp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
A messy or untidy woman. obsolete
"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
To drag. intransitive
"No, that coat's too big; it'll trape along the ground if you wear it."
2
To run about idly or like a slattern. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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