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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

... glade to quieter sleeping-quarters; but never a bird nor a beast gave a thought to the hero to whom they owed it that each year their little homes of horsehair, wool, or moss, were safe stablished 'neath the flap of the British flag; and that Game Laws, quietly permanent, made la chasse a terror only to their betters. No one seemed to know, nor to care, nor to sympathise. In all the ecstasy of her burnt-offering and sacrifice, Selina ...

— Dream Days • Kenneth Grahame

... we had made up our minds that we were lost. But it seemed more likely that, if any creature paid us this thoughtful attention, it would be bats. As night fell in the Forest, they unhooked themselves from their mysterious trapezes, and whirred past our faces with a soft flap, flap of velvet wings. I don't know what I should have done if one had made a halfway-house ...

— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... great desert, where there is no tree and no fountain. As I don't want my wreck to be washed up on one of the beaches in company with devil's-aprons, bladder-weeds, dead horse-shoes, and bleached crab-shells, I turn about and flap my long narrow wings for home. When the tide is running out swiftly, I have a splendid fight to get through the bridges, but always make it a rule to beat,—though I have been jammed up into pretty tight places at times, and was caught once between ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... work to restrain a laugh, but the captain hastily unbuckled the flap of his saddle-bags and brought out a huge package of plug tobacco which he ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... in front of him. It was a long commercial envelope of ordinary type, and although the flap was secured with a blob of sealing wax, there was no particular impression ...

— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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