24 July 2018
dewlap
[doo-lap, dyoo-]
noun
1. a pendulous fold of skin under the throat of a bovine animal.
2. any similar part in other animals, as the wattle of fowl or the inflatable loose skin under the throat of some lizards.
Origin of dewlap
Middle English, Danish, Dutch
1350-1400; Middle English dew(e)lappe, apparently dewe dew + lappe lap1; compare Danish dog-læp, Dutch (dial.) dauw-zwengel; literal sense is unclear
Related forms
dewlapped, adjective
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Examples from the Web for dewlap
Historical Examples
He was very fat, with a shaven, swarthy face and the dewlap of an ox.
The Strolling Saint
Raphael Sabatini
Put setons, or rowels in the dewlap, so as to have a dependent opening.
Cattle and Their Diseases
Robert Jennings
The chief peculiarity of the animal is its lack of a dewlap.
The Western World
W.H.G. Kingston
There must be no loose skin, such as dewlap, etc., in this region.
Sporting Dogs
Frank Townend Barton
Then what sense is there in blistering, bleeding, and inserting setons in the dewlap ?
The American Reformed Cattle Doctor
George Dadd
The dewlap is very slightly extensible, and but little developed.
Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1.
J Lort Stokes
In doing so he noticed for the first time Dick’s stitches in the hound’s dewlap and shoulders.
Jan
A. J. Dawson
About once in so long a tiny spasm of the muscles would contract the dewlap under his chin.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm
Irvin S. Cobb
Apply strong counterirritant to chest and put seton in dewlap.
Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
U.S. Department of Agriculture
So likewise the pictorial historian is merry over ‘ dewlap alliances’ in his description of the society of that period.
The Short Works of George Meredith
George Meredith
Anagram
wed lap
Today’s quote
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
– Alexandre Dumas
On this day
24 July 1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, forced to abdicate after being accused of adultery and murder. Her 1 year old son becomes King James VI of Scotland, and later King James I, when Scotland and England unify. He also sponsored the Authorised Translation of the bible, which was named after him, the King James Bible.
24 July 1802 – birth of Alexandré Dumas, French author of celebrated works such as ‘Count of Monte Christo‘, ‘The Three Musketeers‘, ‘The Black Tulip‘. Died 5 December 1870.
24 July 1938 – Nescafe, or freeze-dried, coffee invented. Although this wasn’t the invention of instant coffee, but rather the refinement of it. Instant coffee was first invented in 1901 by Satori Kato. In 1906, George Washington (not the former POTUSA who died in 1799) invented the first mass produced instant coffee.