Hap

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]

Part of speech: noun (n.)

That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot. Chaucer. Whether art it was or heedless hap. Spenser. Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build Their hopes on haps. Sir P. Sidney. Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Shak.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To clothe; to wrap. The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To happen; to befall; to chance. Chaucer. Sends word of all that haps in Tyre. Shak.