flaps

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• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /flæps/

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Noun

flaps

1. plural of flap

Verb

flaps

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of flap

Noun

flaps pl (plural only)

1. (farriery, archaic) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.
   • 1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London: John Wolfe, page 163:

     Giges or flappes, is pimples or teates in the in side of his mouth.

   • 1610, Gervase Markham, “Of the signes of sicknesse, and of what nature it consisteth”, in Markhams Maister-peece. Contayning All Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-leech, Touching the Curing of All Diseases in Horses: , 5th edition, London: Nicholas and Iohn Okes, , published 1636, →OCLC, 1st book (Containing All Cures Physicall, ), page 32:

     If there be any ſwelling betweene the eares, it is a ſigne of the Pole-evil: ſwelling under the eare, a ſigne of the Vives; and ſwelling in the mouth, a ſigne either of Canker, Flaps, Lampaſſe.

   • 1726, N. B. Philippos, The Farrier's and Horseman's Dictionary, London: J. Darby, page 247:

     Theſe Giggs, Bladders or Flaps, proceed either from eating too much Graſs, or that which is bad; or Hay or Provender that is rough and pricking.

   • 1784, William Griffiths, A Practical Treatise on Farriery, Wrexham, Wales: R. Marsh, page 119:

     The Flaps are a ſpungy, fleſhy, fungous ſubftance, ſituated juſt below the grinders on the lower jaw, adjoining the cheek, on the part where the bit reſteth upon. The above is ſo troubleſome to a Horſe and ſo ſore, that he will often catch the Flaps between his grinders, which chafes him much, and prevents him to grind his food, and cauſes him to ſlaver and ſlober much.

   • 1843, William Youatt, The Horse, London: Chapman & Hall, page 206:

     These likewise sometimes enlarge during catarrh or imflammation of the mouth, and are called gigs, and bladders, and flaps in the mouth.

References

• “flap, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Flaps.

Noun

flaps n (plural flapsuri)

1. (aviation) flap

Declension

Spanish

Noun

flaps m pl

1. plural of flap