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Flapdragon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A play in which they catch raisins out of burning brandy, and extinguishing them by closing the mouth, eat them.

2. The thing eaten.

Flapdragon [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Flapdragon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.

2. The thing thus caught and eaten.

Flapdragon [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.