"sap" Definition

Definitions for the word "sap" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To pierce with saps.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 vital juice circulating in plants. 2 vigour, vitality. 3 slang foolish person. v. (-pp-) 1 drain or dry (wood) of sap. 2 weaken. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. n.
Tunnel or trench dug to get nearer to the enemy. v. (-pp-) 1 dig saps. 2 undermine. [french sappe or italian zappa spade]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
11. slang
or SAPSCULL, a poor green simpleton, with no heart for work.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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