flapped

Example Sentences

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Pouted one newspaper: "They've even frapped our innocent flippers."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, taking the jib, we "frapped" it round the opening where the bows had been, lashing it securely in that position.

From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.

This route has got the N. M. & Q. frapped to suds.

From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert

Once we frapped a ship, and she laboured woundily.

From Verses 1889-1896 by Kipling, Rudyard

Already the masts and shrouds had been "frapped", or protected, by means of wire cables wrapped round the spars and interlaced between the standing-rigging.

From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)