graping

Verb (1)

grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)

1. To pick grapes.
   • I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying.1973, Nancy Safford, Time's Island; Portraits of the Vineyard, page 35
2. Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
   • Some are called ticked; some have the milk fever; some have worm-'ith-tail ; some are graped ; others are broken-up old cows.1856, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Reports from Committees, page 138
3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
   • Over the huge abraded rind, Crow-countries graped with dung, we go, Past gullies that no longer flow And wells that nobody can find, Lashed by the screaming of the crow, Stabbed by the needles of the mind.1932, Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey
4. (Northern-UK) To grope.
   • Lang, lang I sought and graped for my pack, Till night and hunger forced me to come back.1780, Alexander Wilson, A Pedlar's Story
5. (Hong-Kong) To envy (from sour grapes).

Verb (2)

grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)

1. (Internet, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

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