different between clapper vs clasper

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klæp?/
• Rhymes: -æp?(r)

Etymology 1

clap +? -er

Noun

clapper (plural clappers)

1. One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
3. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
4. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
   • 1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, Arminell, a social romance, Ch. 37:

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

5. A clapstick (musical instrument).
6. (sewing) A pounding block.
7. The chattering damsel of a mill.
8. (ice hockey) A slapshot
9. (cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
10. (slang, obsolete) A person's tongue, as a source of chatter or nagging.
    • 1683, S. P., The Dutch Rogue, Or, Gusman of Amsterdam (page 238)

      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: […]

Synonyms

• (musical instrument): clapstick, musicstick

Derived terms

• clapperboard
• clapperboy
• clapperclaw
• clapperless
• clapper-loader
• clapper talk
• clapper-valve
• handclapper
• like the clappers

Translations

Verb

clapper (third-person singular simple present clappers, present participle clappering, simple past and past participle clappered)

1. (transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
2. To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
3. Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French clapier.

Noun

clapper (plural clappers)

1. (obsolete) A rabbit burrow.

Anagrams

• crapple

French

Verb

clapper

1. to click (the tongue)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• clappement

Further reading

• “clapper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

clasp +? -er

Noun

clasper (plural claspers)

1. Anything that clasps.
2. (zoology) Any of several appendages, in insects, crustacea and fish, that are used to clasp the female during copulation.
3. (botany) The tendril of a plant.

Anagrams

• carpels, craples, parcels, placers, reclasp, scalper