Sap
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person. A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack. 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.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. To pierce with saps. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. To gradually weaken. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
Example sentence: Down the years, I have always enjoyed playing Raymond van Barneveld. There is always a frisson of excitement in the air, an edge to the contest that makes the sap rise, but it stops short of pure enmity.
Blackjack
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The most common gambling card game in casinos.The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger). In older literature sometimes spelled "black jack".a small truncheon, commonly made of a leather senneted tube, the slender handle being slightly flexible and the upper more bulbous end being loaded with lead or other heavy material.a type of weed, Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.
Example sentence: I like to play a little bit of blackjack and a little bit of roulette but I'm not a big gambler.