affrap

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verb

To strike; to strike down.

OriginItalian affrappare →
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Meanings

verbaffrap (third-person singular simple present affraps, present participle affrapping, simple past and past participle affrapped)

present singular third person affraps · participle present affrapping · participle past affrapped · past affrapped

  1. obsoleterareTo strike; to strike down.

    I have been trained up in warlike stowre, / To tossen speare and shield, and to affrap / The warlike ryder to his most mishap […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Italianaffrappare
  2. Englishaffrap

From Italian affrappare, from ad- + frappare (“to cut”).

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Chicago

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