flap

flap has 19 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• 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.
• v.. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
• 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.
• v.. A disease in the lips of horses.
• n.. To beat with a flap; to strike.
• n.. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
• v. i.. To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
• v. i.. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
• n.. any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope"
• n.. a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
• n.. a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
• n.. the motion made by flapping up and down