[f. CRAPE sb.] trans. To cover, clothe or drape with crape. To crape it (colloq.): to wear crape in mourning. Also transf.
1815. Hist. J. Decastro, IV. 38. Six or seven men with their faces blacked, or craped, ran round the rosary and intercepted my retreat.
1868. Dilke, Greater Brit., II. 147. The moon was still craped with a ceaseless roll of cloud.
1891. Macrae, G. Gilfillan, 128, note. I crapit it neen when my man deed, I wis gled to be rid o’ him.
Crape, obs. pa. t. of CREEP.
