Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To gape; yawn.

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Examples

  • He asked her one night if she had seen the horns growing on Chamcha's head, but she went deaf and, instead of answering, told him how she would sit on a camp stool by the galp-n or bull-pen at Los Alamos and the prize bulls would come up and lay their horned heads in her lap.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

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