Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe /treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).
Meanings
(obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
Hard was his fate in this I own, ¶ Nor will I for the trapes atone; ¶ Indeed to guess I am not able, ¶ What made her thus inexorable[…] 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe /treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).
Meanings
(intransitive) To drag.
"I expect that's right," Frest admitted. "You going to drop right down—or be you hunting and traping along? You'n Delia?" 1920, Raymond S. Spears, chapter 6, in Diamond Tolls:
No, that coat's too big; it'll trape along the ground if you wear it.
(intransitive) To run about idly or like a slattern.