grapeshot, grape
(noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
grape
(noun) any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
grape, grapevine, grape vine
(noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)
(countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
(countable) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis.
(countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
(uncountable) grapeshot.
A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
(US, slang, colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A person's head.
grape (comparative more grape, superlative most grape)
Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
Of a dark purplish red colour.
grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)
To pick grapes.
(of livestock) To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
(dialect, north, UK) To grope.
• gaper, pager, parge
Source: Wiktionary
Grape, n. Etym: [OF. grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes, F. grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp, Grapnel, Grapple.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
3. (Man.)
Definition: A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
4. (Mil.)
Definition: Grapeshot. Grape borer. (Zoƶl.) See Vine borer.
– Grape curculio (Zoƶl.), a minute black weevil (Craponius inƦqualis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes.
– Grape flower, or Grape hyacinth (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme.
– Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew.
– Grape hopper (Zoƶl.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.
– Grape moth (Zoƶl.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk.
– Grape of a cannon, the cascabel or knob at the breech.
– Grape sugar. See Glucose.
– Grape worm (Zoƶl.), the larva of the grape moth.
– Soar grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 May 2025
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The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
