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An act of waving (the wings or something held in the hand); a waving movement.
‘The motion of something broad and loose’ (Johnson), as a wing or a fly-flapper; the noise produced by its motion, or by contact with some other…
An act of winnowing or a motion resembling it, as the swing of a pendent mass, the sweep of wings.