"'T is more afraid I am of gapping the fine edge of your Excellency by contact with my own ruggedness," said Billy, obsequiously.

He had but just reached this decision when he came upon a gapping hole in the hose.

They are very irregular, and the gapping does not go down too deeply into the cortex.

The upper end of it having apparently lost some tissue was gapping more than the lower portion of it.