flaps

plural of flap

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of flap

Origin

Etymology tree English flap Middle English -es English -s English flaps From flap + -s.

Noun farriery, hobbies

  1. A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.
    • Giges or flappes, is pimples or teates in the in side of his mouth. - 1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London: John Wolfe, page 163:
    • 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. - 1610, Gervase...
    • 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. - 1726, N. B. Philippos, The Farrier’s and Horseman’s Dictionary, London:...

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of flap