v. Obs. or dial. Also ? 5 trappe. [Origin obscure. If quot. c. 1400 belongs here, it may possibly be = MDu. and MLG. trappen to tread, trample, in Kilian ‘calcare, conculcare pedibus,’ in EFris. (Doornkaat-Koolman), to set down the foot with force and noise, to tramp.
But this is doubtful, as there is a long gap between 1400 and 1706, and trape is not phonetically identical with trappe. Trape of 1706–49 is moreover preceded 1593–1700 by TRAPES v., of which it may have been a mutilated form.]
intr. = TRAPES v.
[c. 1400. Sowdone Bab., 1802. Fal what so euer by falle, To the Soudon wole they trappe.]
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Trape, to go idly up and down.
1721. in Bailey.
1749. Richardson, Lett., 4 Aug., in A. Dobson, Fielding, v. (1883), 139. The Lowest of all Fellows, yet in Love with a Young Creature who was traping after him.
b. = TRAPES v. 1 b.
1875. Sussex Gloss., s.v., ‘Her gown trapes along the floor.’
