frapping
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Verb
frapping
- present participle and gerund of frap
Noun
frapping (countable and uncountable, plural frappings)
- (nautical, usually in the plural) Rope lashed tightly over the rigging or other area.
Fingallian
Etymology
From Middle English frappyng.
Noun
frapping
- beating
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
- Frapping,
- Beating.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):