trape

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trape (plural trapes)

(obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
- 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
  
  Hard was his fate in this I own, / Nor will I for the trapes atone; / Indeed to guess I am not able, / What made her thus inexorable [...].

trape (third-person singular simple present trapes, present participle traping, simple past and past participle traped)

(intransitive) To drag.

No, that coat's too big; it'll trape along the ground if you wear it.