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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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lapper
English
Etymology 1
lap +? -er
Noun
lapper (plural lappers)
- One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
- (in combination) Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.
- (sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
- June 2006, RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill
- After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home.
- June 2006, RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill
- One who wraps or folds.
- A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
- (sailing) A headsail that overlaps the mast.
Etymology 2
Verb
lapper (third-person singular simple present lappers, present participle lappering, simple past and past participle lappered)
- To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
Anagrams
- rappel
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare French laper.
Verb
lapper
- (Jersey, onomatopoeia, transitive) to lap (a liquid)
- Synonym: cliapoter
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
lapper m
- indefinite plural of lapp
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