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Definition of Flapped
1. flap [v] - See also: flap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flapped
Literary usage of Flapped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1850)
"Vultures stalked from corse to corse, flapped their wings, and flapped in vain .
They had gorged on man and horse Till they could not rise again. ..."
2. An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton (1761)
"... and flapped him of alt his lands dnd offices, the chancellor having fled to
Venice, where, as there is no farther mention made of him,; it is probable ..."
3. Freedom for Priscillaby Joyce Nicholson by Joyce Nicholson (1978)
"The girls' cotton frocks and petticoats flapped around their knees, their black
buttoned-up boots scuffed up the gravel and their long hair streamed behind ..."
4. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by James Thomas Molesworth, Baba Padmanji (1863)
"Imit. of the sound or expressive of the manner iu which dust powders, &c., fly
up and abroad on being flapped. ПП"Г я. The hollow of a. side of the body, ..."
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