Now dial. or U.S. [f. FLAP v. (sense 4 a) + JACK.]
1. a. A flat cake, a pan-cake. b. An apple turnover or flat tart, an ‘apple-jack.’
c. 1600. Day, Begg. Bednall Gr., V. (1881), 114. There’s the old woman my Mother, she would have made thee a vild-good Huswife could have taught thee how to a made butters and flap-jacks, fritters pancakes.
1620. Taylor (Water-P.), Jack-a-Lent, B ij. A Flapiack, which in our translation is call’d a Pancake.
1641. Brome, Joviall Crew, II. Wks. 1873, III. 375–6. ’Tis in request among Gentlemens Daughters to devour their Cheese-cakes, Apple-pies, Cream and Custards, Flapiacks, and Pan-puddings.
1825. J. Neal, Brother Jonathan, I. 272. Like a flap jack in a fryin’ pan.
1842. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1883), 303. We had a splendid breakfast of flapjacks, or slapjacks, and whortleberries, which I gathered on a neighboring hill, and perch, bream, and pout, which I hooked out of the river the evening before.
Comb.
1872. C. King, Mountain. Sierra Nev., vii. 135. Longhurst came upon the boards as a flapjack-frier,—a rôle to which he bent his whole intelligence, and with entire success.
2. a. A kind of hydraulic machine (see quot. 1842). b. dial. The lapwing.
1842. Taylor, in Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng., II. 101–2. For low falls [of water] there were many machines which were very effective: for instance the balance-engine, and the old ‘flap-jack,’ with a reservoir of water at one end of a beam and a pump at the other.
1847. Halliwell, Flap-jack, the lapwing. Suffolk.
