grape

Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.

(countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.

wild grape covering the back slope

(countable, uncountable) A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.

sea grape; tail grape

(countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.

For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.

grape:

(countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.

men mowed down by grape

The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.

1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

(pathology) A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.

I was horrified to see three grapes standing by the aircraft with the hose still connected.

1998, Approach, volume 43, number 10, page 10:

(US, naval slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.

(US, slang, colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A person's head.

en-noun

grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)

mountain grape

Vitis rupestris; Berberis aquifolium, syn. Mahonia aquifolium

possum grape

Vitis vulpina; Vitis baileyana; Cissus spp.

racoon grape

Vitis labrusca et al.; Ampelopsis cordata

table grape

Vitis spp.; see varieties thereof at List of grape varieties

From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.


grape

Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.

en-adj

grape (comparative more grape, superlative most grape)

more grape (comparative)
most grape (superlative)


grape

I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying.

1973, Nancy Safford, Time's Island; Portraits of the Vineyard, page 35:

Some are called ticked; some have the milk fever; some have worm-'ith-tail ; some are graped ; others are broken-up old cows.

1856, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, Reports from Committees, page 138:

The lungs were in a bad condition, hard in places, and lumpy and badly graped.

1891, Public Health - Volume 4, page 249:

Do I understand that the carcases of the graped cows, to which you refer, were used for food ?

1898, Great Britain Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Administrative Procedures for Controlling Danger to Man Through the Use as Food of the Meat and Milk of Tuberculous Animals, page 245:

(of livestock) To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.

Over the huge abraded rind, Crow-countries graped with dung, we go, Past gullies that no longer flow And wells that nobody can find, Lashed by the screaming of the crow, Stabbed by the needles of the mind.

Some small graped pisolitic textures are primary but not important.

1991, Desheng Li, Tectonic types of oil and gas basins in China, page 162:

An additional concern is the problem of graping, which becomes more visible when type-4 solder powder is required for fine-pitch μ-BGA attachment.

2012, K. Subramanian, Lead-free Solders: Materials Reliability for Electronics, →ISBN, page 169:

To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.

Lang, lang I sought and graped for my pack, Till night and hunger forced me to come back.

1780, Alexander Wilson, A Pedlar's Story:

Aw graped my way out i' the dark, An' down the stairs aw scrafflel'd

1836, William Stephenson Jr, Punch and Toby:

I dinna ken,” said Steenie ; “ the book had fa'en out 0' his pocket, I fancy, for I fand it amang my feet when I was graping about to set him on his legs again, and I just pat it in my pouch to keep it safe ;

1836, Walter Scott, The antiquary, page 56:

'Till in a declamation mist, His argument he tint it; He gapéd for't, he graped for't, He fand it was awa, man;

1881, Robert Burns, The Two Lawyers, page 280:

(dialect, Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).

en-verb

grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)

grapes (present singular third-person)
graping (participle present)
graped (participle past)
graped (past)


grape

(Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.