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Definition of 'sap'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.
Noun
( wikipedia)
(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
(slang|countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
Derived terms
( terms derived from sap)
* crude sap
* elaborated sap
* sap ball
* sap green
* saphead
( der-mid)
* sapling
* sap poison
* sap rot
* sapsucker
* sap tube
( der-bottom)
Etymology 2
Probably from sapling.
Noun
( en-noun)
(countable|US|slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
( rfimage)
Verb
(sapp)
(slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
Etymology 3
From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .
Noun
( en-noun)
(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Derived terms
* sap fagot
* sap roller
* sapper
Verb
( sapp)
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
* (rfdate)
- Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
(military) To pierce with saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
* 1850 ,
- Ring out the grief that saps the mind
To gradually weaken.
* to sap one’s conscience
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
* (rfdate)
- Both assaults carried on by sapping .
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