affrap

English

Etymology

From Italian affrappare, from ad- + frappare (“to cut”).

Verb

affrap

  1. (obsolete, rare) To strike; to strike down.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
      I have been trained up in warlike stowre, / To tossen speare and shield, and to affrap / The warlike ryder to his most mishap […]
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