SAP

Sap

Sáp is a village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

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sap

Noun

  1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  2. The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Verb

  1. To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  2. To pierce with saps.
  3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  4. To gradually weaken.
  5. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12


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