Definitions for the word "Flap" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v.
A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v.
A disease in the lips of horses.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
To beat with a flap; to strike.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v.
(-pp-) 1 move or be moved up and down; beat. 2 colloq. Be agitated or panicky. 3 sway; flutter. 4 (usu. Foll. By away, off) strike (flies etc.) With flat object; drive. 5 colloq. (of ears) listen intently. n. 1 piece of cloth, wood, etc. Attached by one side esp. To cover a gap, e.g. A pocket-cover, the folded part of an envelope, a table-leaf. 2 motion of a wing, arm, etc. 3 colloq. Agitation; panic (in a flap). 4 aileron. 5 light blow with something flat. flappy adj. [probably imitative]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. slang
lead used for the coverings of roofs.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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