Meaning

noun any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters

noun any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries

noun a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot

originInherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”)., from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally…

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