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Clapper
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
- 2 A rabbit burrow. obsolete
"Poore cunnie so bagged, Is soone overlagged Plash burrow, set clapper, For dog is a snapper"
- 3 metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side wordnet
- 4 An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
- 5 a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity wordnet
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- 6 A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
""Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully.""
- 7 someone who applauds wordnet
- 8 A clapstick (musical instrument).
- 9 A pounding block.
- 10 The chattering damsel of a mill.
- 11 A slapshot
- 12 The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
- 13 A person's tongue. slang
"Emilia 'tis true could use her clapper with great Dexterity, but he had the same advantages against her, which this had against him; Olimpia 's Tongue was also well hung but she ever had reason on her side, which he with reason could never either blame or oppose, and by both these came his Fortune: […]"
- 1 To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper. transitive
"It is still necessary to warn clergymen against allowing the lazy and pernicious practice of 'clappering,' i.e. tying the bell-rope to the clapper, and pulling it instead of the bell."
- 2 To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
- 3 Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
Etymology
From clap + -er.
From clap + -er.
Borrowed from French clapier.
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