The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Frap

Sea Terms

After a vessel's bottom has been fothered, the sail is frapped by passing ropes under the sail and keel, and hauling them taut so as to keep the sail in place; to pass a rope around a sail to keep it from blowing away.

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