trapse

present singular third person trapses · participle present trapsing · participle past trapsed · past trapsed

1. archaicArchaic form of traipse.

   Hunter? Trapper? Prospector? He shrugged his shoulders No; just sort of knocking round a bit. Had come up from the Great Slave some time since, and was thinking of trapsing over into the Yukon country.

   1900, Jack London, “A Relic of the Pliocene”, in The Faith of Men and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., published September 1904, →OCLC, page 6

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   One would have thought she would have been overwhelmed with confusion the day she was obliged to have them baptized; but bless me, she made quite a parade of it— no less then ten persons, quite a cavalcade, trapsed to church, and she walking in the midst with a baby on each arm, and Mr. Richard seated on a tombstone drawing a caricature of it. Shocking!

   1873, Kate Mainwaring, Is It for Ever?, London: Samuel Tinsley, page 249