Meaning

One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
2. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
3. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
4. A clapstick (musical instrument).
5. (sewing) A pounding block.
6. The chattering damsel of a mill.
7. (ice hockey) A slapshot
8. (cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.

Example Sentences

"Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully."

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: […]

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.

Poore cunnie so bagged, Is soone overlagged Plash burrow, set clapper, For dog is a snapper

Word Forms

• clappers
• clappering
• clappered

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