Obs. [? a. OF. frap of same meaning, f. fraper: see FRAP v.]

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  1.  A crowd; a mob, the rabble.

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c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 323. Þe þrid day com grete frape, & conged him away.

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a. 1400.  Pistill of Susan, 289. Þei be fendes al þe frape.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 2091. This gentille … ffyghttez with alle the ffrappe a furlange of waye.

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c. 1430.  Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 5085.

        Ther cam of hem a grete frape,
Ful like Giauntez thei wer y-shape.

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1706.  E. Ward, Hud. Rediv., I. I. 11.

        Let loose the Frape to shew their Folly,
And spurn at all that’s Good and Holy.
    Ibid. (1710), Brit. Hud., I. 11.
  When this wild Frape, to Mischief free
The Sons of Blood and Cruelty.

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  2.  ? Tumult, disturbance.

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c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 320.

        In alle þis mykelle frape wex a grete distance
Of Boniface þe pape, & þe kyng of France.

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[1828.  Carr, Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), 164. Fraps, Noise, tumult.]

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