grape

noun

1. (countable)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. (countable, uncountable)Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.

   “wild grape covering the back slope”

3. (countable)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. (countable, uncountable)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. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable)Clipping of grapeshot.

   “men mowed down by grape”

   “The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.”

6. (countable, uncountable)A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
7. (US, countable, slang, uncountable)A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.

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

8. (countable, slang, uncountable)A person's head.
9. (Internet, countable, euphemistic, uncountable)Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

adj

1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
2. Of a dark purplish red colour.

verb

1. To pick grapes.

   “I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying.”

2. 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.”

   “The lungs were in a bad condition, hard in places, and lumpy and badly graped.”

   “Do I understand that the carcases of the graped cows, to which you refer, were used for food ?”

3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.

   “Over the huge abraded rind, Crow-countries graped with dung, we go, Past gullies that no longer flow And wells that nobody can find, Lashed by the screaming of the crow, Stabbed by the needles of the mind.”

   “Some small graped pisolitic textures are primary but not important.”

   “An additional concern is the problem of graping, which becomes more visible when type-4 solder powder is required for fine-pitch μ-BGA attachment.”

4. (Northern-UK)To grope.

   “Lang, lang I sought and graped for my pack, Till night and hunger forced me to come back.”

   “Aw graped my way out i' the dark, An' down the stairs aw scrafflel'd”

   “I dinna ken,” said Steenie ; “ the book had fa'en out 0' his pocket, I fancy, for I fand it amang my feet when I was graping about to set him on his legs again, and I just pat it in my pouch to keep it safe ;”

   “'Till in a declamation mist, His argument he tint it; He gapéd for't, he graped for't, He fand it was awa, man;”

5. (Hong-Kong)To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).
6. (Internet, euphemistic)Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.