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A movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
Answer for the clue "A movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body ", 4 letters:
flap
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "dash about, shake, beat (the wings);" later "strike, hit" (mid-14c.); probably ultimately imitative. Meaning "to swing about loosely" is from 1520s. Related: Flapped ; flapping .
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flap (distributed in Britain as The Last Warrior ) is a 1970 American comedy western film directed by Carol Reed and starring Anthony Quinn , Claude Akins and Shelley Winters . Set in a modern Native American reservation, it is based on the novel Nobody ...
Usage examples of flap.
The Pasha salaamed without a word, his Abyssinian slaves helped him on his great white donkey, and he trotted away towards the palace, the trousers flapping about his huge legs.
Leaning on the crumbling stone wall of a temple orchard, looking past the sloping tile roofs of Grange Head, Maia lifted her gaze to watch low clouds briefly occult a brightly speckled, placid sea, its green shoals aflicker with silver schools of fish and the flapping shadows of hovering swoop-birds.
Gaines belted it on, and accepted a helmet, into which he crammed his head, leaving the antinoise ear flaps up.
When I landed with my trade-goods, leaving my steering sweep apeak, Otoo left his stroke position and came into the stern-sheets, where a Winchester lay ready to hand under a flap of canvas.
The combatants retired into their respective corners and their seconds cooled them by flapping their wings, while Archimedes gave Merlyn a little massage by nibbling with his beak.
Now with the arthroscope we can see inside the knee and find the offending flap, cut it off and pull it out through tiny holes that will leave the knee virtually untouched.
The astrophysicist turned the envelope over once in his hands, grunted noncommittally, unsealed the flap, and unfolded the letter within.
Hresh would say, you might also be able to learn how to fly by flapping your arms, if you worked at it long enough.
Phil raced along the backstretch of corridor and up the second flight, Sacheverell flapping at his heels like a green bat.
If the latter had also been befrilled that appendage might have gone into a rising flap.
That mollified Belli somewhat but reproof, dramatised by his flapping candle flames, rested in the fine eyes.
Brennan brushed past a couple of bemedalled attaches, jacket flapping, unshaven, certain that only moments separated him from security intervention.
She threw back the flap and found Betta lying on her back just beyond the doorway.
Because if you flap your gums again without permission, your bloodsucking days will be over.
He retrieved his pants from a storage nook that opened with a flap of skin like the blowhole on a killer whale.