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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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Etymology of 'Flap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flap" Quotes from Famous Books

... either in a soup-plate, or in two small tin patty-pans, which, for cheesecakes, should be of a square shape. If baked in square patty-pans, leave at each side a flap of paste in the shape of a half-circle. Cut long slits in these flaps and turn them over, so that they will rest on the top ...

— Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats • Miss Leslie

... him out of the headquarters tent. Just beyond the entrance flap was one of the two gyrocopters used for flying within the Dome. He leaped into the cockpit and drove home the starter-piston. The flier buzzed straight up, shooting ...

— The Great Dome on Mercury • Arthur Leo Zagat

... are of glass but the top and bottom are of tin. Before presenting the trick a cloth ball, made of a spiral spring covered with cloth, (triangular pieces of different colours sewn together), is compressed and placed between the bottom of the box and a glass flap which is pressed down over it until caught by a pin at the back of the box. When the ball is to appear, this pin is pressed and the catch releases the glass flap. The spring in the ball forces it up against ...

— Indian Conjuring • L. H. Branson

... song. The mighty son of Banyala and his merry men were so engrossed in the orgy that Birnier could have walked right up to the fire before anyone would have seen him. But he would not take any unnecessary risk. Leaving Mungongo outside he crawled under the back flap of the tent. Crouched there he paused. The tent was empty; for all were engaged in the dance. His two shot-guns and two light rifles were stacked in the corner and the big express which the corporal had appropriated, leaned against the tent door behind ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

... eagle flap O'er the falsehearted; His warm blood the wolf shall lap Ere life be parted: Shame and dishonour sit By his grave ever; Blessing shall hallow it Never, O never! Eleu ...

— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

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