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/klˈæpər/ Listen

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

... all of a piece," remarked the Colonel. "The neglect is in a fashion systematic." He laid his hand on the chain of the bell-pull, but the bell had lost its clapper. The two friends heard no sound save the peculiar grating creak of the rusty spring. A little door in the wall beside the gateway, though ruinous, held good against all their efforts to ...

— Farewell • Honore de Balzac

... mill, too, standing fast by the bridge, the manorial appendage of the town, which I loved in my boyhood for its gaunt and crazy aspect and dim interior, whence the clapper kept time mysteriously to the drone of the mill-sluice? I think it is gone. Surely that confounded thing can't be my venerable ...

— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... him off to clear the woods near Lake Stymphalis of some horrible birds, with brazen beaks and claws, and ready-made arrows for feathers, which ate human flesh. To get them to rise out of the forest was his first difficulty, but Pallas lent him a brazen clapper, which made them take to their wings; then he shot them with his poisoned arrows, killed many, and ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various

... College, what a warren! You entered by deep archways into secluded yards. Here was a darksome passage where murder might be (and no doubt had been) done. Here was an echoing gateway to a coaching inn, with a watchman ready to hit evil boys over the head with his clapper if they tried to ring his bell, the bell that announced the arrival of the Dumfries coach "Gladiator" after thirty hours' detention at the Beeftub in Moffatdale, or the shorter breathed "four" from Selkirk and Peebles that had changed ...

— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett

... manufacturers, the churches, the remains of the old days, the museums, the libraries, (of no interest to my mind), not forgetting the famous bell. I noticed that their bells are not allowed to swing like ours, but are motionless, being rung by a rope attached to the clapper. ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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