frape n [phonetics unavailable]. Cp OED frape² ['ropes which our Seamen call Fraping' (1703)]. A rope formGling part of the 'collar' or mooring of a boat.
   1955 ENGLISH 34 ~ a rope with blocks to moor a boat. P 113-56 Go down and put the punt on the frape. 1963 HEAD 161 The boats ... are moored on a collar from which a frape, or tight rope, extends inland to a mooring on the beach. P 13-73 ~ A form of mooring with a pulley fixed in the end of an anchor buoy. A rope fitted into this pulley allows a means of pulling a boat to shore for embarking.

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