saps

Noun (1)

sap (countable and uncountable, plural saps)

1. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. Any juice.
4. (figuratively) Vitality.
   • In the preceding centuries the Ashkenazic Synagogue song had been Germanized to a degree that jeopardized not only its distinctive Jewishness but its very existence. In Eastern Europe, on the other hand, the ever-renewed Oriental sap penetrated also into the song.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 183
5. (countable, slang) A naive person; a simpleton.
   • Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.

   Synonyms:

   milksop, saphead

Noun (2)

sap (plural saps)

1. 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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