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Flap   /flæp/   Listen
noun
Flap  n.  
1.
Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment. "A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx."
2.
A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
3.
The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
4.
pl. (Far.) A disease in the lips of horses.
5.
(Aeronautics) A movable part of an airplane wing, used to increase lift or drag, especially when taking off or landing. used often in the plural.
Flap tile, a tile with a bent up portion, to turn a corner or catch a drip.
Flap valve (Mech.), a valve which opens and shuts upon one hinged side; a clack valve.


verb
Flap  v. t.  (past & past part. flapped; pres. part. flapping)  
1.
To beat with a flap; to strike. "Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings."
2.
To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
To flap in the mouth, to taunt. (Obs.)


Flap  v. i.  
1.
To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air. "The crows flapped over by twos and threes."
2.
To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.





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"Flap" Quotes from Famous Books



... them the whole of our latter-day art depends. The most brilliant dithyrambs are those that flap their wings in void space and are clothed in mist and dense obscurity. To appreciate this, ...
— The Birds • Aristophanes
... only his excuse—mere flap-doodle!" interrupted the pessimistic Jerrold. "He was foolin' you; he'd heard of suthin better! The idea of calling that affair an 'accident,' or one that would stop ...
— From Sand Hill to Pine • Bret Harte
... I. Then again, some ten years after, a youth is seen careering on a chestnut horse in Parliament Street, when a runaway butcher's cart cannoned against his shying steed, the wheel ripping up a saddle-flap, just as the rider had instantaneously shifted his right leg close to the horse's neck! But for that providence, death or a crushed ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... a tent-flap," said Francis's buoyant voice outside then. "But it's time we were on our way, Marjorie. There ought to be a bathrobe in that bundle of Lucille's. Slip it on and I'll show ...
— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer
... confidence and anticipation he inserted his finger under the flap of the envelope and tore it open. With lightning speed his eyes skimmed the oddly written lines. Then a short, inarticulate sound escaped him, and the blood suddenly ...
— The Mystics - A Novel • Katherine Cecil Thurston


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