Anagrams of: AFFRAPPING

• make secure by lashing

• take up the slack of

• a vaguely specified concern

• a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

• a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people

• a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

• a gentle blow

• the sound made by a gentle blow

• voluble conversation

• genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

• the act of hitting vigorously

• strike sharply

• make light, repeated taps on a surface

• perform rap music

• talk volubly

• Griffin, (white) newcomer

• Grasp; reach

• An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

• Marijuana.

• feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes

• leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc.

• fiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets

• a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock

• a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail

• an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish

• Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing

• a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation

• a Berber living in northern Morocco

• look through a book or other written material

• play riffs