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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
frap .
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Examples
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Then, taking the jib, we "frapped" it round the opening where the bows had been, lashing it securely in that position.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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The line at the coffee shop is insane, but I am determined to be mint frapped.
State of the Stress Level Address kittenpie 2008
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The line at the coffee shop is insane, but I am determined to be mint frapped.
Archive 2008-07-01 kittenpie 2008
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Then I took two pieces of spun yarn and frapped the strings together at each end of the notch, and by this means I was assured that all the strings would act in unison when striking the butt of the arrow.
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Favorite Foods: 1. Tex-Mex - today, tomorrow, just call me and I'll be ready 2. Big salads packed with goodies that I don't have to make myself 3. Coffee - in all forms--hot, iced, frapped, frozen 4. Chocolate Yep, there's gotta be a PMS influence happening right now
Tagged Holly 2007
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Favorite Foods: 1. Tex-Mex - today, tomorrow, just call me and I'll be ready 2. Big salads packed with goodies that I don't have to make myself 3. Coffee - in all forms--hot, iced, frapped, frozen 4. Chocolate Yep, there's gotta be a PMS influence happening right now
Archive 2007-07-01 Holly 2007
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You may have a perfect paragon of a kitchen lady, whose angel food is more heavenly than frapped snowflakes, but you can't really expect her to build you a four-story house with little dofunnies on the cupolas.
The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Helen Follett Stevans
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The ship was besides frapped from the fore-mast to the main-mast.
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She's a winner and a pippin, but she wouldn't know whether a porterhouse was stewed or frapped.
Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926
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She's a winner and a pippin, but she wouldn't know whether a porterhouse was stewed or frapped.
Buttered Side Down 1911
chained_bear commented on the word frapped
"The new bowsprit was home by half past ten, gammoned and frapped by eleven, and the new jibboom rigged out, with all stays and shrouds set up by the depth of low tide."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 184
See also frap and frapping.
February 21, 2008