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noun

Clapper n.

A person who claps.

That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc.

Clapper rail (Zool.), an Americam species of rail (Rallus scepitans).

Clapper n. A rabbit burrow. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Clapper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clapper" Quotes from Famous Books

... your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell? O cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... pocket-book or a show of beautiful wax figures, or of some monstrous beast more horrible than any in the caravan? I guess the latter. See how he uplifts the bell in his right hand and shakes it slowly at first, then with a hurried motion, till the clapper seems to strike both sides at once, and the sounds are scattered forth in quick ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... surroundings? But would it? Ah, Philip felt a twinge then. "Touche!" chortled some unseen imp who plied a venomous rapier. Thank goodness, a sailor was standing by the ship's bell, with his hand on a bit of cord tied to the clapper. It would soon be seven o'clock. Even the companionship of the uncouth skipper was preferable ...

— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy

... horse, I sent Bartlett, your servant, with all my servants, to circumspect the abbey, and surely to keep all back-doors and starting-holes. I myself went alone to the abbot's lodging, joining upon the fields and wood, even like a cony clapper, full of starting-holes. [I was] a good space knocking at the abbot's door; nec vox nec sensus apparuit, saving the abbot's little dog that within his door fast locked bayed and barked. I found a short ...

— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude

... jar. It is pleasant to know that the expelled Franciscan order has just returned to California, and that San Luis Rey is now occupied. It is worth making the trip to San Juan to see the old bells struck, as in former times, by a rope attached to the clapper. They have different tones, and how eloquently they speak to us. These missions along the coast and a line farther inland are the only real ruins that we have in America, and must be preserved, whether as a matter of sentiment or money, ...

— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn

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