LAPPET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lappet mean? 

• LAPPET (noun)
  The noun LAPPET has 3 senses:

1. a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

2. a small lap on a garment or headdress

3. medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars

  Familiarity information: LAPPET used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAPPET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

lappet; wattle

Hypernyms ("lappet" is a kind of...):

caruncle; caruncula (an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small lap on a garment or headdress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lappet" is a kind of...):

lap; overlap (a flap that lies over another part)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lappet; lappet moth

Hypernyms ("lappet" is a kind of...):

lasiocampid; lasiocampid moth (medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae)

 Context examples 

Then she set me on a table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, and wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned it to the scabbard.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Mrs. Fairfax was summoned to give information respecting the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind; and certain wardrobes of the third storey were ransacked, and their contents, in the shape of brocaded and hooped petticoats, satin sacques, black modes, lace lappets, &c., were brought down in armfuls by the abigails; then a selection was made, and such things as were chosen were carried to the boudoir within the drawing-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The gray steed rubbed my hat all round with his right fore-hoof, and discomposed it so much that I was forced to adjust it better by taking it off and settling it again; whereat, both he and his companion (who was a brown bay) appeared to be much surprised: the latter felt the lappet of my coat, and finding it to hang loose about me, they both looked with new signs of wonder.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The farmer having (as I suppose by their talk) received such an account of me as his servant could give him, took a piece of a small straw, about the size of a walking-staff, and therewith lifted up the lappets of my coat; which it seems he thought to be some kind of covering that nature had given me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He seemed to apprehend my meaning; for, lifting up the lappet of his coat, he put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to his master, who was a substantial farmer, and the same person I had first seen in the field.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After some time spent in peeping, grinning, and chattering, he at last espied me; and reaching one of his paws in at the door, as a cat does when she plays with a mouse, although I often shifted place to avoid him, he at length seized the lappet of my coat (which being made of that country silk, was very thick and strong), and dragged me out.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)