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▪ I. ˈslapping, vbl. n.1
[f. slap v.1]
a. The action of the vb., in various senses; an instance of this.
1632in Sherwood. 1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 67 (1713) II. 166 Our Author's next Charge..is the slapping of the Pew-doors in Prayer-time. 1682Bunyan Holy War (1905) 378 The Town made answer with the slapping of their slings. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. iii. 51 The pattings and slappings of the Fuegians. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. 70 There was an incessant slapping and chatter at the bows now, varied by a solid thud.
attrib.1851Hawthorne Twice-told T. I. viii. 154 That smart, slapping sound, produced by an open hand upon tender flesh. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 44 The loud, vibrating, prolonged, presystolic bruit and slapping first sound [of the heart].
b. spec. in Pottery. (See quots.)
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 460 When the clay is required for the thrower the process of slapping follows next. This is performed by a strong man, who places a large mass..upon a..bench. He then..cuts the mass through, and taking up the piece thus cut off, he..casts it down again on the mass below. 1880Janvier Pract. Keramics iv. 44 Just before using, the paste for this often undergoes the process of ‘slapping’.
c. In jazz, the action of playing a double-bass (see slap v.1 1 d).
1931Melody Maker Dec. 1029/3 Slapping, too, becomes next to impossible with a high bridge. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene 289 Slapping for pizzicato playing.
▪ II. ˈslapping, vbl. n.2
[f. slap v.3]
(See quot.)
1611Cotgr., Lichement, a licking; lapping, or slapping vp.
▪ III. ˈslapping, ppl. a.
[f. slap v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Of pace, etc.: Extremely fast; rapid, rattling.
1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 124 The first run was at a slapping pace. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xxii, Billy gave the little black mare her head, and away she went at a slapping pace. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 428 One giraffe-cow, going at a slapping gallop a long way ahead over a villainous country.
2. Of horses: Big, powerfully built (sometimes implying ability to travel quickly).
1828Sporting Mag. XXI. 277 One by Comus, and the other by Jonathan, both slapping colts. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour ix. 38 Nor did the great slapping brown horse..turn out less imposingly than his master. 1856H. H. Dixon Post & Paddock i, The Yorkshiremen..try to breed great slapping carriage-horses.
b. Of persons or things: Unusually large or fine; excellent, very good; strapping.
1825Jamieson Suppl. s.v., A slappin chiel, a tall fellow. 1829–in dial. glossaries (N. Cy., Berks., Somerset, Cornw., etc.). 1849Cupples Green Hand ii. (1856) 23, I really couldn't help laughing to see the slapping, big-bearded fellows..showing off in this manner.
3. That slaps, in senses of the vb.
1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 750 The large and slapping pulse which he has frequently observed in pericardial effusions. 1899Triad vii. 12/1 We swam on in the face of the slapping seas. |