shrap

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Compare scrap and scrape.

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shrap (plural shraps)

  1. (obsolete) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
    • c. 1642, William Bedell, letter
      You fell, like another dove, by the most chaffy shrap that ever was set before the eyes of winged fowl.

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