wrop

present singular third person wrops · participle present wropping · participle past wropped · past wropped

1. alternativedialectalobsoleteAlternative form of wrap.

   All de niggers had shoes and plenty warm clothes and we wrop up at night in everything we can git.

   1941, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, volume 13, Washington, DC: Library of Congress, →OCLC, page 339

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   […]as Peter doth ſaye / they which were clene eſcaped / of them are agayne wropped in erroures.

   1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […]

   […]So I wropped 'em up in a five dollar bill and tied 'em up and sent 'em, and they ain't back yet.”

   1935, Cabins in the Laurel, University of North Carolina Press, published 19 March 2014, →ISBN, page 231