Definitions for dewlaps

dewlaps dew·lap

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

Dewlaps is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in dewlaps (adelpsw).

Definitions for dewlaps

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 dewlaps

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

Examples for dewlaps

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

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

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

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

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

Apply strong counterirritant to chest and put seton in dewlap.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for dewlaps
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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