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frapping, vbl. n.|ˈfræpɪŋ| [f. frap v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. frap in various senses; an instance of this; also concr. a lashing. frapping turns (see quot. 1867).
1804A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. Pref. 8 The opposite ones are braced together under a bowsprit by a frapping. 1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 216, 3 takes hold of the tube at the trapping with both hands. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., The frapping increases tension. Ibid., Frapping turns, in securing the booms at sea the several turns of the lashings are frapped in preparation for the succeeding turns. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 184 Pass a hawser round outside the rigging ready for frapping in a wreck. |