Trape vs Trake - What's the difference?
trape | trake |
(obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
* 1678 , Samuel Butler, Hudibras :
To drag.
(rare)
* 2001, John Barnes and , The Return , Tor/Forge, ISBN 081257060X, page 41,
*:"[…] I'll do a trake on him, right now, because his breathing isn't good and I think there's a crushing injury to the neck. […]"
* 2004, Christopher Young, Anno Domini Book III Amalgamation , Lulu Press, Inc., ISBN 1411606639, page 150,
*:"[…] She'll never be able to talk again, and for now she is breathing out of a trake ."
* 2005, Isaiah Baity, Jr., Beyond the Mark of Cain , Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1412064627, page 60,
As nouns the difference between trape and trake
is that trape is (obsolete) a messy or untidy woman while trake is (rare).As a verb trape
is to drag.trape
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hard was his fate in this I own, / Nor will I for the trapes atone; / Indeed to guess I am not able, / What made her thus inexorable [...].
Verb
- No, that coat's too big; it'll trape along the ground if you wear it.
Anagrams
*trake
English
Noun
(en noun)- Over time my uncle continued to slowly get better but my aunt was concerned about the tracheotomy hole (trake') in his throat. […] ¶ […] My aunt anxiously tried to instruct her to put the ' trake back in the hole in his throat.