flapping

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A couple of frapping turns are then taken between the spars and the lashing is finished off with a clove hitch above the turns on one of the spars.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)

These rope-girdles are not to be confused with the process of undergirding or frapping, such as is narrated of the vessel in which St. Paul was being carried to Italy.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.

"Mister," cried Midshipman Trotter, favoring Darrin with a glance of frank friendliness, "do you know that you saved us from frapping the pap hard?"

From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

Accordingly they jostled one another and each took to frapping his fellow, making the while loud outcries.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Consists of a grommet made of rope double the size of the gun-tackle falls, with two cringles worked into it for the frapping lashing, which will be of stuff half the size of the tackle-falls.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance