frap

[prettygoodword]

frap - v., to lash down; to draw tight (as with ropes or cables).


So you can frap something to the deck or frap a sail tight against the wind. A good all-purpose word. First recorded in the sailing sense in 1548, from earlier Middle English senses meaning to strike, beat, from Anglo-Norman fraper, probably of Germanic roots but no one seems to know for sure -- and so cognate of frappé.

---L.

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