trapse
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[edit]Verb
[edit]trapse (third-person singular simple present trapses, present participle trapsing, simple past and past participle trapsed)
- Archaic form of traipse.
- 1873, Kate Mainwaring, Is It for Ever?, London: Samuel Tinsley, page 249:
- One would have thought she would have been overwhelmed with confusion the day she was obliged to have them baptized; but bless me, she made quite a parade of it— no less then ten persons, quite a cavalcade, trapsed to church, and she walking in the midst with a baby on each arm, and Mr. Richard seated on a tombstone drawing a caricature of it. Shocking!
- 1900, Jack London, “A Relic of the Pliocene”, in The Faith of Men and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., published September 1904, →OCLC, page 6:
- Hunter? Trapper? Prospector? He shrugged his shoulders No; just sort of knocking round a bit. Had come up from the Great Slave some time since, and was thinking of trapsing over into the Yukon country.