DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

[Stanley]

Here's a funny word.... 'FRAUGHT'
So I looked it up....
late Middle English, ‘laden, equipped’, past participle of obsolete fraught ‘load with cargo’, from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with freight.

[Tizer]

Cathy has posted a joke with the words `trap doors'. The word trap is also used by geologists to refer to massive, solidified lava flows which have occurred repeatedly in the same place over long time periods. It results in a stepped rock formation and was first named by Swedish geologist whose word for stairs is `trapp'. One of the biggest formations is the Deccan Traps in India. Wikipedia

[Stanley]

I've heard the term referring to the rock formation but never knew the origin. Thanks Peter.....