gaper

Example Sentences

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“There’s nothing like the surprising chill of sitting down on a toilet gaper in the dark.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018

Toilet gaper: A commode with the seat up.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018

It has few basements and fewer furnaces and almost every house has an "incinerator" in the backyard�a reinforced concrete stove with a screened stack for burning rubbish and gaper.

From Time Magazine Archive

That blue-billed gaper probably came from Malacca, and the trogon too.

From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous

“This pretty dark bird with the black and white and crimson plumage is the rain-bird—the blue-billed gaper; and this softly-feathered fellow with the bristles at the side of his bill is a trogon.”

From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous