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Shram vs Shrap - What's the difference?

shram | shrap |

As a verb shram

is to cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.

As a noun shrap is

a place baited with chaff to entice birds.

shram

English

Verb

  • (UK, dialect, dated) To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.
    • (Webster 1913)

    shrap

    English

    Alternative forms

    * scrap * shrape

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
  • * Bishop Bedell
    • You fell, like another dove, by the most chaffy shrap that ever was set before the eyes of winged fowl.
    (Webster 1913)