Flapdragon

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, v. t.
     To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.]
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           See how the sea flapdragoned it.         --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, n.
     1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning
        brandy, and swallow them blazing. --Johnson.
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     2. The thing thus caught and eaten. --Johnson.
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              Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays,
              and all the happy sports of Christians night. --C.
                                                    Kingsley.
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