flap, flappe

[ Dut.flap.] [FLAP, ν.] I. Ordinary Language : 2. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke with it; a flapping motion or noise. "The flap of the banners, that flit as they're borne." Byron: Siege of Corinth , xxii. chin, bench ; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-1716.png:[blocks in formation] B. Intransitive: 1. To strike as with a flap. "Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings." Alex. Pope. 2. To move the wings rapidly backward and forward. "'Tis common for a duck to run flapping and fluttering away, as if maimed, to carry people from her young."L'Estrange. 3. To move loosely backward or forward in the air. "The flapping sail hauled down to halt for logs like these." Byron: Childe Harold, ii. 4. To fall like a flap. "An old black hat that flapped ."- State Trials (1679); Т. White bread and others.