grape

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GRAPE, noun [This word is from the root of grab, gripe, and signifies primarily a cluster or bunch.] 1. Properly, a cluster of the fruit of the vine; but with us, a single berry of the vine; the fruit from which wine is made by expression and fermentation. 2. In the manege, grapes signifies mangy tumors on the legs of a horse.
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