different between trades vs trapes

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?dz/
• Rhymes: -e?dz

Noun

trades

1. plural of trade

Noun

trades pl (plural only)

1. Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.

   They rode the trades going west.

2. A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

   Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.

Verb

trades

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trade

Anagrams

• E-tards, adrets, darest, daters, derats, desart, stared, treads

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??d/

Verb

trades

1. second-person singular present indicative of trader
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of trader

Anagrams

• tardes, tardés

Latin

Verb

tr?d?s

1. second-person singular future active indicative of tr?d?

English

Etymology 1

Obscure, as is common among colloquialisms. OED mentions possible association with Dutch trappen, to tread or stamp the foot, but objects that the connection is unconvincing.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)

1. Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

Noun

trapes (plural trapeses)

1. Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

Etymology 2

See trape.

Noun

trapes

1. (seldom in use since about WWII, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.

   • He found the sullen trapes / Possest with th' devil, worms, and claps.

   • 1715, John Gay, The What D'ye Call It

     From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, / Than marry such a trapes.

   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     Since full each other station of renown, / Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?

Anagrams

• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, treaps