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Audio Help [dap] Pronunciation Key verb, dapped, dap·ping, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	to fish by letting the bait fall lightly on the water.

2.	to dip lightly or suddenly into water: The bird dapped for the fish.

3.	to bounce or skip, as on the surface of a body of water: The stone dapped along the surface of the pond.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to cause to dip in and out of water: to dap one's bait.

5.	to cause to skip along the surface of water: to dap stones across the river.

6.	Carpentry. to notch (a timber) to receive part of another timber.

–noun

7.	Carpentry. a notch in a timber for receiving part of another timber.

[Origin: 1575–85; prob. var. of dab¹

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dap Audio Help (dāp) Pronunciation Key
intr.v. dapped, dap·ping, daps

To fish by letting a baited hook fall gently onto the water.
To dip lightly or quickly into water, as a bird does.
To skip or bounce, especially over the surface of water.

[Probably alteration of dab¹.]

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Dab"chick`\, n. [For dabchick. See Dap, Dip, cf. Dipchick.] (Zo["o]l.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

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