# Dapping

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{{about||the style of handshake|Dap greeting|the metalworking technique whereby flat sheet metal is formed into a non-flat object by hammering it into a concave indentation|Sinking (metalworking)}}
{{Distinguish|Dabbing}}

'''Dapping''' in nature, workshop practice, and in [angling](/source/angling) describes special examples of dipping, dabbing, or bouncing actions.

==Usage==
The Oxford English Dictionary defined '''dap''' in part as follows: "daps" meaning "ways, modes of action"; hence in dialect, "likeness, image".  A dap can be a bounce of a ball, etc. Correspondingly, as a verb, "dap" or "dape", is apparently parallel to "dab", the final "p" expressing a lighter touch. It can mean to fish by letting the bait dip and bob lightly onto the water. Also generally to rebound.<ref name="isbn0-19-861271-0">{{cite book |author=Brown, Lesley |title=The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles |publisher=Clarendon |location=Oxford [Eng.] |year=1993 |isbn=0-19-861271-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/newshorteroxford00lesl }}</ref> In modern practice the term "dapping" is not commonly used except in specific senses.

==Technology==
It can refer to the metalworking techniques known as "[sinking](/source/Sinking_(metalworking))", and in [angling](/source/angling) as letting the bait or lure bob lightly and repetitively down onto the water surface in the manner of certain behaviour patterns of gracile flying insects such as [crane flies](/source/Crane_fly), [mayflies](/source/Mayfly), or [caddisflies](/source/Caddisfly) and others.<ref>Hodgson, William Earl; "An Angler's Season" Publisher: A. and C. Black (1909) May be downloaded from: https://archive.org/details/ananglersseason00hodggoog</ref>

==Natural history==
In [natural history](/source/natural_history) dapping is the motion that many aquatic flying insects engage in when laying their eggs. This is a mode of [oviposition](/source/oviposition) related to certain ecological strategies of reproduction. Among those best known for such behaviour are some [Odonata](/source/Odonata) ([dragonflies](/source/dragonflies) and [damselflies](/source/damselflies)), many Trichoptera ([caddisflies](/source/Caddisfly)), [craneflies](/source/Crane_fly), [mosquito](/source/mosquito)es, and Ephemeroptera ([mayflies](/source/mayfly)).<ref>Skaife, S. H., "African Insect Life", Pub. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1953.</ref> This action is highly attractive to certain fishes, and anglers try to imitate the effect.

==References==
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Category:Recreational fishing
Category:Odonata
Category:Caddisflies
Category:Mayflies
Category:Tipulidae

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