FLAPDRAGON

Flap"drag`on, n.

1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.

2. The thing thus caught abd eaten. Johnson. Cakes and ale, and flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley.

Flap"drag`on, v. t.

Definition: To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.] See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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