shrap

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Compare scrap and scrape.

• Rhymes: -æp

shrap (plural shraps)

1. (obsolete) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
   • c. 1642, William Bedell, letter

     You fell, like another dove, by the most chaffy shrap that ever was set before the eyes of winged fowl.

• “shrap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Sphar, Sharp, Spahr, harps, Harps, SHARP, sharp, PHASR, PHRAs