trape

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”).

• enPR: trāp
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /tɹeɪ̯p/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /tɹæɪ̯p/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /tɹep/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ʈɾeːp/
• Rhymes: -eɪp
• Hyphenation: trape

trape (plural trapes)

1. (obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
   • 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:

     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 […]

trape (third-person singular simple present trapes, present participle traping, simple past and past participle traped)

1. (intransitive) To drag.

   No, that coat's too big; it'll trape along the ground if you wear it.

   • 1920, Raymond S. Spears, chapter 6, in Diamond Tolls:

     "I expect that's right," Frest admitted. "You going to drop right down—or be you hunting and traping along? You'n Delia?"

2. (intransitive) To run about idly or like a slattern.

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, treap

trape

1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of trap

• IPA^(key): /tʁap/
• Hyphenation: trape

trape

1. inflection of traper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

trape

1. alternative form of trappe (“trap”)

trape

1. alternative form of trappe (“baking dish”)

• trappe

From Medieval Latin trappa, trapa, borrowed from Frankish *trappā. More at English trap.

trape oblique singular, f (oblique plural trapes, nominative singular trape, nominative plural trapes)

1. trap (device design to ensnare or trap)
2. hiding place

• Middle French: trappe, trape
  • French: trappe

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “trape”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• trappe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Borrowed from French draper. Assimilated to trapo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾape/ [ˈt̪ɾa.pe]
• Rhymes: -ape
• Syllabification: tra‧pe

trape m (plural trapes)

1. (dated) intermediate fabric used to make drapery

• “trape”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025