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affrapping

affrapping is the present participle and gerund of affrap.

Meaning of affrap

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, rare) To 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

Questions about affrapping

What is affrapping the present participle and gerund of?
Affrapping is the present participle and gerund of affrap.

Words near affrapping in the dictionary

  1. affranchized
  2. affranchizes
  3. affranchizing
  4. affrap
  5. affrapped
  6. affrapping
  7. affraps
  8. affray
  9. affrayed
  10. affrayer
  11. affrayers

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