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clapper
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?klæp?/
- Rhymes: -æp?(r)
Etymology 1
clap +? -er
Noun
clapper (plural clappers)
- One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
- An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
- 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."
- 1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, Arminell, a social romance, Ch. 37:
- A clapstick (musical instrument).
- (sewing) A pounding block.
- The chattering damsel of a mill.
- (ice hockey) A slapshot
- (cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
- (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: […]
- 1683, S. P., The Dutch Rogue, Or, Gusman of Amsterdam (page 238)
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)
- (transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
- To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
- Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French clapier.
Noun
clapper (plural clappers)
- (obsolete) A rabbit burrow.
Anagrams
- crapple
French
Verb
clapper
- 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).
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clevis
English
Alternative forms
- clevy
Etymology
First attested in the 1590s. Origin unknown; probably derived from the verb cleave. If so, the word ultimately may stem from Scandinavian: compare Old Norse kljúfa (“to split”), Old Norse klofi (“a forked stick”).
Noun
clevis (plural clevises)
- A U-shaped coupling having holes at each end, through which a bolt is run; used especially to fit attachments to a tractor or other vehicle as it allows a degree of rotation about the bolt.
Derived terms
- clevis pin
Translations
Further reading
- clevis fastener on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- clives
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