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verb

Flap v. t. (past & past part. flapped; pres. part. flapping)

To beat with a flap; to strike. "Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings."

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.

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."

To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.

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Etymology of 'Flapping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flapping" Quotes from Famous Books

... galleries, though there were many of them,—prisoners, who being condemned for lighter offences than murder or forgery, were allowed to walk under the eye of a keeper. I was conscious of passing them, but they only seemed to deepen the gloom, like ravens and bats flapping their wings ...

— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz

... Go away, ugly woman," cried Mary ungratefully, flapping at her with her hands in terror at the brown face and big ...

— The Carbonels • Charlotte M. Yonge

... quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker's overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush. Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer. His head had been shattered by a savage blow from some heavy weapon, and he was wounded on ...

— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

... and his will that is dealing with him! As I have looked from one of the northern windows of the street which commands our noble estuary,—the view through which is a picture on an illimitable canvas and a poem in innumerable cantos,—I have sometimes seen a pleasure-boat drifting along, her sail flapping, and she seeming as if she had neither will nor aim. At her stern a man was laboring to bring her head round with an oar, to little purpose, as it seemed to those who watched him pulling and tugging. But all at once the wind of heaven, which had wandered all the way from Florida or from ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... than a red rose rapping, And fear is a plash of wings. What, then, if a scarlet rose goes flapping Down the bright-grey ...

— New Poems • D. H. Lawrence

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