grape

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In the 12th century, a grape was a hooked weapon that was used to find openings in joints of armour and gouge away at the flesh.

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  1. noun Any of numerous woody vines of the genus Vitis, bearing clusters of edible berries and widely cultivated in many species and varieties.
  2. noun The fleshy, smooth-skinned, purple, red, or green berry of a grape, eaten raw or dried as a raisin and widely used in winemaking.
  3. noun A dark violet to dark grayish purple.
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  • ‘Professional experience,’ said Dame Beatrice, whose only tribute to the grape was an occasional glass of sherry. —  My Bones Will Keep - Gladys Mitchell- Bradley 35
  • The fox-grape is also found in great plenty, and as big as one's thumb. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Citizen-soldier, by John Beatty.
  • A grape which is grown and successfully bottled worldwide. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • You have the variety of the grape, which is the Merlot or the Cabernet.
  • The original grape, which is called traminer, produced a mutation that made a much more exciting wine than the locals were used to getting from their somewhat fickle traminer grapes. —  The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, bunch of grapes, hook, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English grape, sometimes graap, a grape, also collectively in the singular, as in the plural, grapes, the bunches of grapes (= Middle Dutch grappe and krappe, a bunch of grapes), from Old French grape, grappe, crape, a bunch or cluster, especially of grapes (cf. Italian diminutive grappolo, a bunch of grapes); a particular use of grape, grappe, also grafe, graffe, a hook, grappling-iron, = Provencal Spanish grapa = Italian grappa, a cramp-iron (cf. English grapple, grapnel), from Old High German chrapho, Middle High German krapfe, German krapfen, a hook, = Dutch krap, a clasp; connected with Old High German chrampho, chrampha, a hook, a nasalized form of the same word, = English cramp: see cramp.
 

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