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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clapper" Quotes from Famous Books

... from every pore of the brow and runs down the face; legs grow weak; eyes see nothing; hands swell to enormous proportions; violent pains shoot across the chest; the breath is confined within the lungs; from the clapper-like tongue comes only a faint click. Is it any wonder that under such physical agonies the mind refuses to respond—rather, is incapable ...

— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... arbitrarily substituted or added: genuine strength can only create from necessity. Wherever in the series of your pieces Goethe himself incites your strength, the bell resounds with its natural full tone, and the clapper beats in it as the heart does in the body. If you had been able to ring the whole "Faust"-bell (I know this was impossible), if the detached pieces had had reference to a great whole, then that great whole would have thrown ...

— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... Alec Johnstone to him, "wait till auld Clapper gie's ye a biff or twa wi' his muckle tawse. Do ye ken what he does to mak' them nippy? He burns them a wee bit in the fire, an' then st'eeps them in ...

— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh

... the crown of his head, to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; For what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks. "I hope he is in love." —Much ...

— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

... rear of the silent house and through the servants' hall, then around by the kitchen garden, then felt his way along a hedge to a hutchlike lodge where a fixed iron bell hung quivering under the slow blows of the clapper. ...

— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers

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