shrap

English

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Etymology

Compare scrap and scrape.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -æp

Noun

shrap (plural shraps)

  1. (obsolete) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
    • Bishop Bedell
      You fell, like another dove, by the most chaffy shrap that ever was set before the eyes of winged fowl.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shrap in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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