Sap vs Ecc - What's the difference?

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As a noun sap

is wax.

sap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

Noun

(wikipedia sap)

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

(uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.

(slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.

Derived terms

(terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tube

Etymology 2

Probably from sapling.

Noun

(en noun)

(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

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Verb

(sapp)

(slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Etymology 3

From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .

Noun

(en noun)

(military) 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.

Derived terms

* sap fagot * sap roller * sapper

Verb

(sapp)

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

* (rfdate)

Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.

(military) To pierce with saps.

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

* 1850 ,

Ring out the grief that saps the mind

To gradually weaken.

* to sap one’s conscience

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12

* (rfdate)

Both assaults carried on by sapping .

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