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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

... dead too? den her clapper is stopped at last. [Pause.] So de old woman is dead; well, she led me a hard life—she was de wife of my bosom, she was mine frow for all dat. [Whimpering.] I'm dead too, unt dat is a fact. Tell me ...

— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van - Winkle • Charles Burke

... impossible; even to toll it requires the united strength of three men pulling with separate ropes the vast clapper; above this are 40 ...

— A Journey in Russia in 1858 • Robert Heywood

... pretensions to intelligence who hasn't wept over little Cosette, been in love with Enjolras and "doted on" Gavroche and Jean Valjean! So ultra nice has the world become that we must skip the Canticles. Shakespeare's plays must now be clapper-clawed to make them palatable. Alexander Pope's philosophic rhyme must be deleted with dashes. Walt Whitman's poetry is too strong for the average stomach. But we continue to fire into the bosoms of our families the ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... beautiful Magnolia. I wonder how the miles of green marsh through which we pass can seem to you such a dreary waste. To my eye it is all alive with interest. I never tire of watching how the lonely white heron spears his scaly prey, how the clapper-rail floats on his raft of matted rushes, how the marsh-wren jerks his saucy little tail over his bottle-shaped nest, or how with quick and certain stroke the oyster-catcher extracts the juicy "native" ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, - No. 97, January, 1876 • Various

... week, there was always a great to-do; Mrs. Iden, like nervous people, was cross and peevish when she was exceptionally busy, and clapper-clawed Iden to some purpose. It chanced that Amaryllis one day was just opening an envelope and taking out a returned drawing, when Iden entered, angry and fresh from Mrs. Iden's tongue, and, seeing ...

— Amaryllis at the Fair • Richard Jefferies

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