ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Flaps

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /flæps/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Flaps is a noun meaning (farriery, archaic) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.

Meaning

(farriery, archaic) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.

More Meanings

  1. plural of flap
  2. third-person singular simple present indicative of flap

Example Sentences

Giges or flappes, is pimples or teates in the in side of his mouth.
These likewise sometimes enlarge during catarrh or inflammation of the mouth, and are called gigs, and bladders, and flaps in the mouth.
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.
If there be any ſvvelling betvveene the eares, it is a ſigne of the polle euil; ſvvelling under the eare, a ſigne of the vives; and ſvvelling in the mouth, a ſigne either of canker, flaps or lampaſſe.

Synonyms for flaps

Depending on context, synonyms include flap.

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