Flap

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·v A disease in the lips of horses.

II. Flap ·v A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.

III. Flap ·noun To beat with a flap; to Strike.

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

V. Flap ·vi To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.

VI. Flap ·noun To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.

VII. Flap ·v 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.

VIII. 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 garment.