Definitions for dewlap

dewlap dew·lap

Spelling: [doo-lap, dyoo-]
IPA: /ˈduˌlæp, ˈdyu-/

Dewlap is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in dewlap (adelpw).

Definitions for dewlap

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

1350-1400; Middle English dew(e)lappe, apparently dewe dew + lappe lap1; compare Danish dog-læp, Dutch (dial.) dauw-zwengel; literal

Examples for dewlap

Apply strong counterirritant to chest and put seton in dewlap.

Then what sense is there in blistering, bleeding, and inserting setons in the dewlap?

About once in so long a tiny spasm of the muscles would contract the dewlap under his chin.

The dewlap is very slightly extensible, and but little developed.

In doing so he noticed for the first time Dick's stitches in the hound's dewlap and shoulders.

The chief peculiarity of the animal is its lack of a dewlap.

Put setons, or rowels in the dewlap, so as to have a dependent opening.

There must be no loose skin, such as dewlap, etc., in this region.

So likewise the pictorial historian is merry over 'dewlap alliances' in his description of the society of that period.

He was very fat, with a shaven, swarthy face and the dewlap of an ox.

Word Value for dewlap
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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