Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, v. t.
   To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.]

         See how the sea flapdragoned it.         --Shak.

Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, n.
   1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning
      brandy, and swallow them blazing. --Johnson.

   2. The thing thus caught and eaten. --Johnson.

            Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays,
            and all the happy sports of Christians night. --C.
                                                  Kingsley.