Definitions
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- noun A
fold orflap , especially of the brim of a hat - noun mathematics A
transformation of aknot involving a 180°rotation of atangle
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Examples
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Hats bowl away, coats fly open, skirts cling, umbrellas flype themselves: and their owners, grotesquely running, grabbing, snatching, struggling, are consumed with rueful and involuntary mirth.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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It's hardly mair nor the flype o 'a sawmon's tail. "
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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