What is to beat with a flap; to strike. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. Pope called?
flap — To beat with a flap; to strike. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. Pope. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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