gapes

  1. Verb.  (third-person singular of, gape) .
  2. Noun.  (context, "the gapes") A fit of yawning.
  3. Noun.  (context, "the gapes") A disease of young poultry and other birds, caused by a parasitic nematode worm in the windpipe.

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