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Beclap

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.

    "He so besmouched her, and she so beclapped him, and there tumbling together, as merrie as they would wish, I sighed to thinke, what a supper they would haue after break-fast."

  2. 2
    To clap for; to applaud.

    "No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English biclappen (“to grasp, insnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly”). By surface analysis, be- + clap.

Etymology 2

From be- + clap.

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