flapdragon Meaning, Definition & Usage

Flap"drag`on noun
Definitions
  1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.
  2. The thing thus caught abd eaten. Johnson.
    Cakes and ale, and flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley.
Flap"drag`on transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. Obs.
    See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak.

Webster 1913