grape

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.

   Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.

2. 2
   noun

   Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.

   wild grape covering the back slope

3. 3
   noun

   Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible.

   sea grape; tail grape

4. 4
   noun

   A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.

   For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.

5. 5
   noun

   Clipping of grapeshot.

   men mowed down by grape

6. 6
   noun

   A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.

   I was horrified to see three grapes standing by the aircraft with the hose still connected.

7. 7
   verb

   To pick grapes.

   I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying.

8. 8
   verb

   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.

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”). Displaced native Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.