Definition of “sap”
noun:
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The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
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The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
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A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
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A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
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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.
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verb:
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To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
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To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
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To pierce with saps.
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To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
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To gradually weaken.
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To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12.
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