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the nautical art of binding loose ropes tight, now hijacked by milkshake lovers and drone pilots.
means In its original sense, frapping is the act of binding ropes or rigging tightly together to draw them taut and secure, though the word now also surfaces in casual talk of blended icy drinks and the rapid spinning of drone propellers.
from Frapping comes from the nautical verb 'frap,' meaning to bind or tighten, which English borrowed from the Old French 'fraper' (also 'frapper'), 'to strike or beat.' How a word for striking came to mean tightly lashing is a logical drift — sailors hammered and hauled lines taut — but the modern milkshake and drone uses are unrelated coincidences of sound rather than direct descendants; the coffee 'frappé' traces separately to French 'frapper' in the sense of chilling a drink with ice.
- sailing origin
- tightening lashings by drawing rope turns together
- drone slang
- a quadcopter flying erratically out of control
- french root
- likely from frapper, meaning to strike
- caffeine confusion
- often misspelled for blended frappe drinks
frapping in sailing — nautical technique of binding sails tightly with rope to secure them in heavy weather, used on tall ships since the 17th century
fracking water injection — hydraulic fracking at barnett shale texas uses pressurized fluid to fracture rock and extract natural gas, started commercially 2002