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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Flap

Flap (flap)
n.(?)
Flap
[OE. flappe, flap, blow, bly-flap; cf. D. flap, and E. flap, v.] 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 garmen
  1. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
  2. 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.
  3. A disease in the lips of horses.

    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.


Flap

Flap (flap)
v. t.
Flap
  1. To beat with a flap; to strike.

    Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. Pope.

  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.] W. Cartwright.


Flap

Flap (flap)
v. i.
Flap
  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. Lowell.

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