the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > flap or flutter wings (5)
To flap (the wings). Obsolete.
transitive. To flutter (the wings). Obsolete.
transitive. To move up and down, beat (the wings).
intransitive. Of a bird: to raise or flap the wings and ruffle or raise the feathers, as when bating (bating, n.1) or dust-bathing (obsolete); (now…