grape

Etymology

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.

noun

1. (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
   Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.
2. (countable, uncountable) A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
   wild grape covering the back slope
3. (countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.
   sea grape; tail grape
4. (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
   For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.
   grape:
5. (uncountable) Clipping of grapeshot.
   men mowed down by grape
6. A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
7. (US, naval slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
   I was horrified to see three grapes standing by the aircraft with the hose still connected. 1998, Approach, volume 43, number 10, page 10
8. (US, slang, colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A person's head.

adj

1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
2. Of a dark purplish red colour.

verb

1. To pick grapes.
   I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying. 1973, Nancy Safford, Time's Island; Portraits of the Vineyard, page 35
2. (of livestock) To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
   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
3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
   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. 1932, Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey
   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, page 169
4. (dialect, north, UK) To grope.
   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
5. (dialect, Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).