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  appel

  noun

  a tap or stamp of the foot, formerly serving as a warning of one's intent to attack, but now also used as a feint.
• Appel
  Appel

  noun

  Karel (ˈkaːrəl). 1921–2006, Dutch abstract expressionist painter

appel

American  

[uh-pel, a-pel, a-pel] / əˈpɛl, æˈpɛl, aˈpɛl /

noun

Fencing.

• appels
  plural

1. a tap or stamp of the foot, formerly serving as a warning of one's intent to attack, but now also used as a feint.

2. a sharp stroke with the blade used for the purpose of procuring an opening.

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appel ¹ British  

/ apɛl, əˈpɛl /

noun

1. a stamp of the foot, used to warn of one's intent to attack

2. a sharp blow with the blade made to procure an opening

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Appel ² British  

/ ˈɑpəl /

noun

1. Karel (ˈkaːrəl). 1921–2006, Dutch abstract expressionist painter

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• appels
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of appel

From French; see origin at appeal

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Example Sentences

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And what about Adem and Eev and the sin with the tree of nowlege and eating the appel and the fall.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

To use the French terms, there cannot be appel, but there may be cassation.

From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace

March 13.—Had rost befe for diner, and cabage, and potato and appel sawse, and rice puding.

From What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge

Already the mechanicians were bringing out the machines and lining them up in front of the hangars, in preparation for the morning work, which began immediately after appel.

From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall

Mony appel is bryht wiþ vte.     and Bitter wiþ inne.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall

Appel replaced it, but under his own plan, and handed it over with child-protection monitoring software installed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

But when Appel told him it was no longer safe for him to have unmonitored access to a computer or phone, it was a much bigger deal.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The follow-up investigation led to last month’s stunning arrest of one of Mexico’s most celebrated political figures — Ernesto Ruffo Appel, the former governor of Baja California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

In the 1970s, President Gerald Ford insisted on making some of his medical information public, over the objections of his own physician, Appel told the BBC.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

It was a small matter, but, as Mrs. Appel declared indignantly, it is trifles that betray character, and Mrs. Budlong was treated with marked coldness by the ladies to whom she had prevaricated.

From The Dude Wrangler by Caroline Lockhart

I dint eat no appels or do nothing sinful.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Also a kinde of russet appels that be very great, of a good tast.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

I eat ate appels at a fate, Then took my leve and warked home strait.

From The Crown of Success by A. L. O. E.

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