A rare or dialectal term, possibly related to frap or a small frapping rope used in sailing.
Likely a diminutive or dialectal variation of 'frap' with the -le suffix, common in Middle English for creating smaller versions of objects.
Some words fade from use but leave traces in regional dialects—fraple might be a ghost word that sailors once used for thin binding cords, preserved in old sailing documents.
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