affrap

English

Etymology

From Italian affrappare, from ad- + frappare (“to cut”).

Verb

affrap (third-person singular simple present affraps, present participle affrapping, simple past and past participle affrapped)

1. (obsolete, rare) To strike; to strike down.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     I have been trained up in warlike stowre, / To tossen speare and shield, and to affrap / The warlike ryder to his most mishap […]