grape
Pronunciation: /greɪp/
noun
- 1a berry (typically green, purple, or black) growing in clusters on a grapevine, eaten as fruit and used in making wine.
- (the grape) informal wine.
- 2short for grapeshot
Origin:
Middle English (also in the Old French sense): from Old French, 'bunch of grapes', probably from graper 'gather grapes', from grap 'hook' (denoting an implement used in harvesting grapes), of Germanic origin